“In every mystical tradition there is a certainty that we and the divine are one at the core of our being, in what we might call the soul. This soul is the prisoner of habits, desires, discursive thought and all the demanding excitements of life, and it is only by connecting with it through prayer, contemplation, adoration, service of others, that we come slowly to free it and live in its supreme and healing mystery, to taste its immortality and to hear its child-like laughter.”
So write Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring in The Mystic Vision: Daily Encounters with the Divine, a favorite devotional of mine. Christianity is my path to freeing my soul, but it is not the only path. Whatever faith tradition or practice we embrace on our journey to taste immortality and hear laughter, inevitably takes on the mystical, and draws us, both consciously and unconsciously into prayer. As Paul writes:
Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with signs too deep for words (Romans 8:26).
So write Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring in The Mystic Vision: Daily Encounters with the Divine, a favorite devotional of mine. Christianity is my path to freeing my soul, but it is not the only path. Whatever faith tradition or practice we embrace on our journey to taste immortality and hear laughter, inevitably takes on the mystical, and draws us, both consciously and unconsciously into prayer. As Paul writes:
Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with signs too deep for words (Romans 8:26).
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