Mystical Spirituality Can Change the Way You Think About Religion. And That’s Okay.

More than once on this blog I have quoted an amazing few words from the American mystic Howard Thurman, who had this to say in 1939:

Acts of worship must be tested by the degree to which they remain living channels for the direct release of God into the life of the worshipper. When they become institutionalized they are apt to become dead so the mystic seems always to be the foe of institutional religion. He is very sensitive to the crystallizing of acts of worship into dead forms. It is profoun...