The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great if the inward is small or of little worth.
Mysticism is about being-with-being: being-with-being in silence, in experience, in awe, in connection making, in non-dualism, and also about being with suffering beings, with the victims of self-hate and oppression.
A prophet is a mystic in action.