Christian Mysticism

A Long and Loving Look

St. Thomas Aquinas says that no one can live without pleasure. Certainly no one can live a full, satisfying life without contemplation.
To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at a thing — a tree, a child, a pear, a kitten, a hippopotamus; to really “see” [...]

What is Christian Mysticism?

“Mysticism is awe and wonder at the sacredness of life and being and of the invisible, transcendent and infinite abundant source of being.”
The mystic is not a special kind of person, but everyone is, or ought to be, a special kind of mystic. Mysticism is nothing esoteric. It is not the privilege of a few [...]