Disclaimer: I am writing this for a friend - and despite presenting arguments from both sides - my personal take is - I would rather have space for magic in my life than rationalize everything to a drab. We are all pretty equal in how infinitely ignorant we are -

Expect nothing. Accept nothing. Except Nothing. Mystics and Atheists believe in the same thing - they just spell it differently: Nothing and nothing. I am neither a mystic nor an atheist, although I do want to explore the exhaustive space between these two words. One inspires us to believe in