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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Mysticism? | |
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| We are All Mystics | |
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| Mysticism of Childhood | |
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| Are Mystics Completely Different? | |
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| Mystical Sensibility | |
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| "I Am What I Do": C. S. Lewis | |
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| Ecstasy | |
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| Stepping Out and Immersing Oneself | |
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| Commotion and Unity: Martin Buber | |
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| Rabi'a and Sufi Mysticism | |
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| Mansur al-Hallaj: Agnus Dei Mohamedanus | |
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| We Have Not Been Created for Small Things | |
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| Definitions, Methods, Delimitations | |
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| From the Hermeneutic of Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Hunger | |
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| Pluralism of Methods and Contextuality | |
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| The Distinction between Genuine and False Mysticism | |
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| Finding Another Language | |
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| The Cloud of Unknowing and the Cloud of Forgetting | |
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| Sunder Warumbe: Without a Why or Wherefore | |
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| A Language without Dominance | |
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| The Via Negativa, the Way of Negation | |
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| The Paradox | |
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| Silence | |
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| The Journey | |
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| Ladders to Heaven and Stations on Earth | |
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| Purification, Illumination, Union: The Three Ways of Classic Mysticism | |
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| Traces of a Different Journey: Thomas Muntzer | |
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| Being Amazed, Letting Go, Resisting: Outline of a Mystical Journey for Today | |
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| Places of Mystical Experience | |
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| Nature | |
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| Places and Placelessness | |
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| A Morning Hymn: Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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| Monotheism, Pantheism, Panentheism | |
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| Sharing and Healing: A Different Relation to the Earth | |
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| Eroticism | |
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| Heavenly and Earthly Love and Their Inseparability | |
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| The Song of Songs | |
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| Marguerite Porete and the Enrapturing Far-Near One | |
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| The Bitterness of Ecstasy: D. H. Lawrence and Ingeborg Bachmann | |
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| Sacred Power | |
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| Suffering | |
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| Job: The Satanic and the Mystical Wager | |
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| Between Dolorousness and Suffering | |
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| "Even When It Is Night": John of the Cross | |
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| "Better in Agony than in Numbness": Twentieth-Century Mysticism of Suffering | |
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| Community | |
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| The Hidden Sacred Sparks: Hasidim | |
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| Community, the Sinai of the Future: An Examination of Buber's Relation to Mysticism | |
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| Without Rules and Poor, Persecuted, and Free: The Beguines | |
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| The Society of Friends and the Inner Light | |
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| Joy | |
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| The Mystical Relation to Time: Thich Nhat Hanh | |
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| Publicans, Jesters, and Other Fools: The Abolition of Divisions | |
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| Dancing and Leaping: The Body Language of Joy | |
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| The Relation of Mysticism and Aesthetics | |
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| Mysticism Is Resistance | |
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| As if We Lived in a Liberated World | |
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| The Prison We Have Fallen Asleep in: Globalization and Individualization | |
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| Out of the Home into Homelessness | |
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| Acting and Dreaming: Becoming Martha and Mary | |
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| The Fruits of Apartheid | |
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| Ego and Ego-Lessness | |
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| The Ego: The Best Prison Guard | |
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| "Go Where You Are Nothing!" | |
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| Asceticism: For and Against | |
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| Tolstory's Conversion from the Ego to God | |
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| Freedom from the "Ring of Cold": Dag Hammarskjold | |
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| Success and Failure | |
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| Possession and Possessionlessness | |
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| Having or Being | |
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| Naked and Following the Naked Savior: Francis of Assisi | |
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| John Woolman and the Society of Slave Owners | |
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| Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day | |
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| Middle Roads and Crazy Freedoms | |
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| Violence and Nonviolence | |
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| The Unity of All Living Beings | |
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| The Duty of Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau | |
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| Mahatma Gandhi and Ahimsa | |
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| "Our Weapon Is to Have None": Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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| Between Hopes and Defeats | |
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| A Mysticism of Liberation | |
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| The Death and Life of Severino: Joao Cabral | |
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| Kneeling Down and Learning to Walk Upright: The Theology of Liberation | |
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| "When You Dance with Death, You Must Dance Well": Pedro Casaldaliga | |
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| The Voice of the Mute: Dom Helder Camara | |
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| Learning to Pray and a Different Mysticism | |
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| Afterword: A Conversation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |