num_pages: 178
description: We are all mystics, if we take the word mysticism to mean union or communion with ultimate reality. So writes John S.Dunne in this, his latest in-depth book on mysticism. The great mystics, he thinks, are those in whom the common experience is heightened and deepened. The beginning of mysticism is the common experience of loneliness, an especially widely felt experience in our times. Loneliness is a combination of the sense of being alone and the longing to be unalone. This longing in our loneliness Dunne calls "the heart's desire". And he says the mystic way is the road of the heart's desire leading through loneliness to love.
language: English
title: The Mystic Road of Love
titlecomplete: The Mystic Road of Love
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr