A mystic is a person who...

I was in a class learning sand-tray therapy last evening, and as the instructor explained how images help connect a person's psyche to actual events, my own thoughts began to connect with my beliefs. I scribbled down these thoughts (I'm sure the professor thought I was taking copious notes on her lecture...sorry!) and here they are.

A mystic is the person who can connect the dots of life, so that:
                                                no incident
                                                no event
                                                no pain or sorrow
                                                no joy or elation
              is lost.

All have a very small connecting thread. The mystic can see that thread, not as the Omnipotent Will of God, but as steps along the journey through the desert.

By seeing that small connecting thread, the mystic is led to Wholeness.

This is how the mystic acknowledges the soul. It is through the knowledge of journey that the mystic realizes - God works through all of these things. Nothing is lost.

The mystic does not have to see it (require signs of his or her own making) to know it. The mystic does not need to concretize the symbolic, because the mystic has transcended these things.

(So, what do you think? Was it worth taking these notes during class? :-)