During my podcast travels today I heard an excellent definition of mysticism from Elizabeth Gilbert and Richard Rohr.

Gilbert said the three things you need to create a feeling of peace in order to create are priorities, boundaries, and mysticism.

Mysticism is a human being encountering the mysterious and adding their labor to it. I believe that ideas want to be born, I believe that ideas have consciousness, that they circle the early formlessly looking for human beings to collaborate with to bring them into being.

In Oprah’s interview with Father Richard Rohr on her Super Soul Conversations podcast and show, she called Rohr a modern day mystic. He defined mystic as follows:

Someone who sees in whole rather than parts. They always end up emphasizing love as the center and the goal and the energy. Mystics are always non-dual seers.