What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self

Great insight for those who want to become mystics. Very practical and paradoxical. Small readings but big ideas to reflect and apply. Enjoy the journey of discovery.

Book is divided into rich segments which can be read in reader's order preference. It's hopeful, has depth and encouraging.

Richard Rohr wrote this book that is easy to read. Short thought provoking and life challenging messages. I started each morning with coffee reading and found myself underlining specific messages that i will go back to as i hope to start regrouping my daily life. I encourage other Catholic, protestant,Muslim, whatever faith tradition or no faith tradition or spiritual to read. Richard Rohr is a breath of fresh air.

I needed to read this: "To become aware of God's Presence in our lives, we have to accept what is difficult....We have to accept that human culture is in a mass hypnotic trance. We're sleepwalkers." page 11. I have resisted this fact. I have tried so hard to be in this world and not of this world and it is not easy. I cannot understand why this human culture is just walking towards what I perceive to be a cliff, with their ear buds plugged in and reading their devices while walking down sidewalks and crossing streets. I want to be a lunatic with a microphone screaming at people in front of Union Station as they walk as if in a herd with little or no regard for one another "Wake up!". It is a hard observation to accept but that is all I can do - or become the lunatic with the microphone screaming "Wake Up" with futility as some might notice me and say silently to themselves, "Another nutcase". All of Fr. Rohr's books have helped me grow and accept. I will read this book several times, as I have his other books. I thank Fr. Rohr for writing another book I needed to read. Blessings to him and others responsible for this book.

When we have big questions we may reach for a big book to look for answers, but Franciscan Father Richard Rohr makes it easier for us. He answers questions, including some we didn’t know we had, in a collection of straightforward little articles or essays. Each one addresses a major concern, and Father Rohr is a practiced story-teller with a talent for getting to the point. “What the Mystics Know” begins with a collection of essays under the heading, “The Enlightenment You Seek Already Dwells within You.” After that comes a collection called “God is Found in Imperfection.” That interested me, because imperfection is one of my specialties. Mine is not a defiance of God, like Job’s, but I was stirred by Job’s remarks as worded by Rohr: “I know God is right somehow; I just don’t understand in this instance how he’s right.” Then Job gets it: “But,” he says, “I’m willing to wait.” Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His books and lectures and followed by people of all faiths along with people who are uncertain about their faith.

I am still slugging through it, but it isn't easy to read. Really more of a collection of thoughts than a book. I has some good insights and thoughts, but it is a fairly tough sledding. I pick it up every day or two and read a few pages, then put it down. I don't want to say it isn't good, but it isn't something you can just sit down and read for hours at a time.

This book really pulls you in from the first paragraph to the last. Father Rorh does an excellent job in making the understanding of mystic journey very readable. It's a book I will share with others who are interested in a deeper Christian experience and life.

This book is not for faint of heart. Don't expect it to be an easy read. It needs to be digested and contemplated. If you want to enhance your spirituality, this is the book for you. Reading this book with a group of like-minded people and holding discussions is the best way to get the most from this book.

Excellent book. Very thought-provoking and educational. Well-worth the read.

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Before reading this book I was not familiar with the writings of Richard Rohr. This book has been a revelation to me but I would have preferred to start with something of Richard's that would serve as an introduction to his style of spirituality. I am using the present book as a stimulus to reflection and meditation. For that purpose I think that the book is very valuable.

Excellent transaction and book

Not really keen on the typeface or the use of blue headlines/ photos but the content is classic Rohr andworthevery penny