Blog Entries - July 2008 http://www.smallpressexchange.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:05:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.smallpressexchange.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=-1070.html&Itemid=99999999 The Life of a Mystic <p>The average individual has seldom understood the Mystic, this is often because they conceive the Mystic Life, with its ceaseless spiritual activity, and its restlessness, which knows no stay until it reaches its goal, as a life of tranquility, if not one of indolence and ease. Yet, many have no conception of what it really is, and for that, perhaps they should not be blamed. </p><p>Nevertheless, not being content with misinterpreting the mystic&#39;s life, some currently [...] Shooster http://www.smallpressexchange.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-snippet-from-my-ninth-book.-Addresses-the-issue-of-contemplation..html&Itemid=99999999 &gt;The fact is, that there is no gulf between the ordinary and the supernatural in prayer.&nbsp; The soul in its quest, passes through unconscious and undistinguishable steps, just as the old year melts tranquilly into the new, without any sound breaking the silence of midnight. <br />&nbsp;<br />&lt;br&gt;Theologians differ as to where the precise point begins, when the ordinary ceases and the supernatural prayer begins.&nbsp; Now if we speak of common, or acquired, or as it is commonly called [...] Shooster