Recently I’ve been exploring the website and substack of Black Modern Mystic, where you can find articles, interviews, videos, and conversations. I have been inspired by their “core commitments and rule of life based in discernment, not dogma.“ To quote from Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms: “Black Modern Mystic is a space where scholarship, social transformation, andContinue reading “Black Modern Mystic”
Category Archives: Mystics
Howard Thurman
“How good it is to center down! To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by! The streets of our minds seethe with endless traffic; our spirits resound with clashing, with noisy silences, while something deep within hungers and thirsts for the still moment and the resting lull.” – Howard Thurman Book Recommendation: Jesus andContinue reading “Howard Thurman”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” The Spirit of the Earth, 1931, VI, 32, 33, 34 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was aContinue reading “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
Śrī Aurobindo Ghose
“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together. “The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and fromContinue reading “Śrī Aurobindo Ghose”
Harriet Tubman
“If you’re tired, keep going. If you’re scared, keep going. If you’re hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going” – Harriet Tubman Book Recommendation: Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter by Therese Taylor Stinson It is easy to think of Harriet Tubman as a freedom fighter,Continue reading “Harriet Tubman”
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