"I don't believe there is a “calling” to mystical experience. I think that what is rather ambiguously called mysticism is nothing more than the experience of the spirit, or rather the experience of the truest and deepest reality of man: something that each of us is “called” to accomplish if we want to become what we really are. Of course, this requires a precise willingness not to be satisfied with the relative, to move towards the Absolute _ therefore a strong religious and philosophical need _ , but this also seems to me to be something absolutely “normal,” even if, perhaps, it is not so from a statistical point of view, so to speak."