Definitions

mys·tic /ˈmistik/ noun — a person who, through presence and surrender, comes to know truths beyond the intellect. Trusting what arises when thinking stops.

pres·ence /ˈprezəns/ noun — being here instead of running away inside your head or body. When you’re present, you can feel what’s happening without trying to fix it, explain it, or escape it. Not something you achieve. Something you stop interrupting. Presence clears the channel. When you stop generating noise, you start receiving signal.

pro·vi·sion /prəˈviZHən/ noun — knowing what you need to know, when you need to know it, and the natural pull to act on it. Not head-knowing. Body-knowing. The kind that moves you. Not forcing yourself to do the hard thing but finding the hard thing rising up in you as the obvious thing. Presence is provision. They’re the same address. You can’t be in one without being in the other.