Machado beautifully expresses what happens when we are present to life without the distractions that hijack our hearts and minds.
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CLEAR ALL
Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.