Mystics Aren't

A mystic is not a prophet: they have no ego they want to impose. In my experience true mystics are vulnerable above all, and make others feel vulnerable just by being themselves… and in my experience, any who need to call themselves mystics are just narcissists. Mystery is something that by definition no one understands, not even those who are most immersed in it. Mystery is not knowing what your next thought will be or where it will come from. Mystery is to realize that you're even smaller than a person in an infinite universe because you're as small compared to that person as that person is to the universe. Mystery is not something heroic that only a few are worthy of, it's our home, something we all deal with in our daily lives. It's not so much something we can't handle as something that we forget to appreciate: the silences in a conversation, the dreams we forget, the uncertainty of the future. Nothing is more human, more mortal, more insignificant than mystery.
I know from experience that I have to watch out for people who think they are too mystical for others, or that they have to elevate others to their level. For me, mysticism is to be aware of each moment ... that's something that is always there, but which we give up because we are too busy trying to justify our existence. If you just don't take part in those illusions, the other feels less need to do so themselves because there is already one person who is accepting them without justification, so just by being present you allow the other by being present as well. Such people are fun to be around, such as the Dalai Lama. They do not give you the feeling that they subject you to an improvement process, because that is the opposite of mysticism. Identity is made up of borders and borders are there to defend us. If no one condemns, there is no need for borders and everything feels like part of a whole, so a mystical person is simply someone who does not judge, and who lets you be yourself, to allow your every perceptions to happen and expand, because there is nothing left to stop them. Those that judge are good for only one thing, and it is to teach you to become indifferent to what they think of you — in that sense alone can they teach you to become more "mystical."