Contemplation is meeting reality in its simplest and most direct form. The words mysticism and contemplation are essentially the same.
Many mystical people are totally involved in affairs of the world.
What makes them mystical is their great love of God and how their lives stem upward from the all-consumed love. We don't have to grasp all the classic prescriptions on contemplation according to the master teachers, namely the saints known by their mysticism. It is not extraordinary that God is within and wants to speak to us, we need only to search within ourselves and discover that God may be calling us to a mystical life. There is an inordinate search for the mystical. Every bookstore has a section devoted to mysticism.