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A View of Hope You, the Mystic by Hope Hewetson |
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n December, I'm looking forward to
teaching a workshop called "You, the Mystic." What is a mystic? Often
people think it is a state of being relegated to a certain few individuals
through the ages. But, actually, we are each and everyone a mystic. The extent
that each of us pursues mysticism, is up to us.
A mystical opening in our life often offers a glimpse of ultimate freedom, joy, and bliss. In that moment, a person is able to perceive the world around them entirely without fear and they experience the truth that we are all one.
Following are what some mystics through the ages have said about peace and how to be. Enjoy them, read each sentence and pause. May they lead you to some contemplations on the eternal world of the soul within you.
The Native American Indian Black Elk wrote: "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the soul of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men."
Here is Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."
An Aborigine Song: "Tree...he watching you. You look at tree, he listen to you. He got no finger, he can't speak. But that leaf...he pumping, growing, growing in the night. While you sleeping, you dream something. Tree and grass same thing. They grow with your body, with your feeling."
A Hindu sage said: "I have to let go of the need to know so much. What we can know is so small - the holiness around is so large. Now I trust in simplicity, simplicity and love."
The Dalai Lama said: "Even our enemy is useful to us because, in order to practice compassion we need to practice tolerance, forgiveness, and patience, the antidotes to anger."
Lao-tzu said: "As soon as you have make a thought, laugh
at it."
-Rev. Hope Hewetson
Rev. Hope Hewetson is associate director of Psychic Horizons Center. Call Hope for a reading or healing, at 303-685-8991 or email hopi@frii.com.
