A Special Kind of Mystic

I listened to the first 20 minutes of a talk by Mosab Hassan Yousef. A dear friend (who happens to be Jewish) sent me a link to the talk on Youtube. “‘Son of Hamas’ Tackles University Antisemitism, Exposes Hamas ‘Holy War’ to Wipe Out Jews” was given at University of Michigan last week.

Opening email, I appreciated Gratefulness.org for posting this beautiful quotation from Brother David Steindl-Rast today, “The mystic is not a special human being – every human being is a special kind of mystic.”

I grabbed my journal and did a sacred drawing.

The drawing invoked this Haiku:

So busy —— this mind
but space and peace await
One need only be

Be

the change you seek
wait for nothing to come first
You already are

As I wrote today’s date on the top of the page, the breath caught in my chest: Thursday, December 7, 2023.

82 years ago today 2,403 were killed in Pearl Harbor.

We cry “Peace, peace”…. while hating our neighbor and fearing our inner demons.

We need only to lay down our swords —— “S” words —— like should and should not and somebody.

Today’s “Daily Tejaniya”:

Faith Keeps Us On the Path

When we practice meditation,
faith should increase. Only if we
have trust and confidence in some-
thing, can we actually apply ourselves
to it. We must recognize the faith we
have — however little or much. It’s
what keeps us on the path.

This path is perhaps to each human being living fully as a special kind of mystic….