Mystic may refer to:
A person who practices mysticism, or a reference to a mystery a mystic knows or studies. It may also be a person who seeks the truth of life beyond the five senses.
The Christian mystic’s goal is to reach for the highest level of Christian perfection, which is to have a heart filled with the Holy Spirit, to have a mind united with the mind of Christ, and to live free from sin and in perfect obedience to God’s will. In Christian mysticism the mystic seeks spiritual experiences of an overpowering sense of God being with the mystic in a very personal way. The mystical experience leaves the mystic feeling completely known by God, cared about and loved by God, even to the extent of feeling as though he or she were within God, or surrounded by the Holy Spirit.
Any Christian can have a mystical experience in the normal course of life, the Christian mystic on the other hand makes a conscious effort to draw near to God through deep prayer and the use of spiritual exercises aimed at opening the heart and mind to God. The mystic may feel overwhelmed by God’s love or power or wisdom and moved to tears, so mysticism is dismissed as overly emotional by some Christian academics.............From Wikipedia
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Christian academics that think that crying when one is in union with God is overly emotional are people that have never been in union with God.. Crying, is the body feeling Joy that is beyond speaking of.. You will only experience this Joy when you have surrendered the false ego and the desires of the material world.. this is your goal.........namaste, thomas
I, as a mystic, am seen as eccentric by others, and maybe sometimes downright crazy. But then I remember that proverb about hearing music others can't hear and being thought of as mad. I think it was Rumi?
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