Reading the Mystics

Come reflect on the work of Christian Mystics in our worship space.

Mystics Outtakes
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“The mystic is not somebody who says, ‘Look what I’ve experienced. Look what I’ve achieved.’ The mystic is the one who says, ‘Look what love has done to me.’” -James Finley

Quick Guide

  • Our final class on Meister Eckhart is March 9th.

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    Thomas Kelly was a remarkable modern American mystic of the Quaker tradition born on a farm in southwestern Ohio. His relatively short life found him plumbing the depths of the spiritual path and discovering the “Light Within,” his own Divine center to which he continuously returned to rest in the presence of God who dwells within us all.

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    “The soul is like a castle made exclusively of diamond or some other very clear crystal.  In this castle there are a multitude (7) of dwellings, just as in heaven there are many mansions.”

    Thus begins St. Teresa of Avila’s masterpiece, The Interior Castle, in which she draws a narrative map of the territory of your own soul.

Current Study

Meister Eckhart

Weekly Schedule

Reading Schedule

What is a Mystic?

Meet our Mystics

Mystics Outtakes

What is a Mystic?

This is the way Frederick Buechner describes the mystics, “There must be a God because every age and culture has produced mystics  who have experienced a Reality beyond reality and have  come back using different words and images but obviously  and without collusion describing with awed adoration the  same Indescribability.” 

James Finley writes, “The mystic is not somebody who says, “Look what I’ve experienced. Look what I’ve achieved.” The mystic is the one who says, “Look what love has done to me.” . . .  There’s nothing left, but the being of love itself giving itself away as . . . the concreteness of who you simply are.”

Weekly Schedule

Notes:

  • If you would like to just come for Centering Prayer or just come for the Mystics, you are more than welcome to come and go as you please.

  • Whether its your first time or fifty-first, All are Welcome!

  • You do not need to have read up to a certain point in the book… you can just jump on in!

Learn more about Centering Prayer

5:00pm

Gather for brief Centering Prayer Instruction

5:10pm

Centering Prayer Sit

5:30pm

Introduction, Reading, and Discussion

7:00pm

Conclude