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To become a mystic is simply to penetrate from within more deeply than is customary into the psychological element of religion. But after all, this is only a single element, although a most important one, in what is really made up of several elements. And this is the defect, or even danger, of mysticism--that it is insufficient because incomplete, that it discards such useful religious characteristics as moral re-education of thought and conduct, personal compassion, social helpfulness, and worshipful humility.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 520