Mysticism tends to overthrow whole worlds, both within our selves and outside us. It uproots the status quo, overturns the moneychangers’ tables, rearranges our mental furniture, disturbs our complacency, alters our consciousness, and forces us to be true to ourselves and to all things just when we were feeling that being false felt just fine. It disrupts us to the foundations, to the roots of our mental and emotional mountains, when we take contemplative practice seriously.
