I'm a reporter, not a mystic, Linda.

And (the mystic ties of) parent and child

I call them the mystic and the warrior.

when the lote tree was covered in mystic splendour.

Without doubt it is (announced) in the mystic Books of former peoples.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions.

I've been walking the mystic path, trying to peer beyond what Albert Einstein called

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari In the year 1703, a mystic named Caligari visited the small towns

Now when the mystic part of me jabbers on and on like this, the warrior rolls her eyes.

And it can be sort of crazy making, housing both the mystic and the warrior in one body.

Now we all love to trot out these three mystic warriors as if they were born with the saint gene.

And we called him from the right side of Mount (Sinai), and made him draw near to Us, for mystic (converse).

Then Mother Teresa, another mystic warrior, who said, The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Legend has it, in the mystic land of Prydain, there was once a king so cruel and so evil that even the gods feared him.

He jumps back and there, of course, is the future Buddha Maitreya in a beautiful vision rainbow lights, golden, jeweled, a plasma body, an exquisite mystic vision that he sees.

When the poet and mystic, Rumi, met his spiritual companion, Shams of Tabriz, one of the first things the latter did was to toss Rumi's books into water and watch the letters dissolve.

These things are reciprocal the ball rebounds, only to bound forward again for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.

I've always been attracted to those rare people who pull that off, who devote their lives to humanity with the grit of the warrior and the grace of the mystic people like Martin Luther King, Jr., who wrote, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

O ye who believe! When ye are told to make room in the assemblies, (spread out and) make room (ample) room will Allah provide for you. And when ye are told to rise up, rise up Allah will rise up, to (suitable) ranks (and degrees), those of you who believe and who have been granted (mystic) Knowledge. And Allah is well acquainted with all ye do.

Yet whether you're a rationalist or a mystic, whether you think the words Muhammad heard that night came from inside himself or from outside, what's clear is that he did experience them, and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice.