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Trusting My Heart - What it Means to be a "Mystic"

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  "The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground," - U2 Beautiful Day   "The most unfortunate thing about the concept of mysticism is that the word itself has become  mystified —relegated to a “misty” and distant realm that implies it is only available to a very few. For me, the word “mysticism” simply means  experiential knowledge of spiritual things , in contrast to book knowledge, secondhand knowledge, or even church knowledge."                                                                                                 - Richard Rohr   Rohr goes on to say that those of us who have been "churche...