This truth, this soil, is near to support us when the outer ground shakes with drama and trauma, aching our emotional bones. The soul who has forgotten her home, herself, her relationship with her original lover and beloved, God, wears a body and mind fit for traveling the temporal terrain. Its limbs and longings are pushed and pulled by ropes of material passion, goodness, and ignorance, which are tethered to self-centric hopes and desires. But these trials and troubles transform when we land in the land of this oasis of remembrance and grace. It is here to bring you and me back, to bring us into peace, to untie the tethers and rebind each one of us individually to the center of God's love, with divine surety and security.

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How do we reach this wonderous place?

 

We are carried by sound, showering from the clouds of compassion from the spiritual world. Revelation descends from God's mouth to our ears, through our hearts and his holy names. He sends those who have traveled before us, to and from the beautiful reality beyond the mirage, to speak what they have seen and tasted, and to help guide us on our way. The rains of spiritual sound from above and beyond the material dimension thus flow down and fill the reservoirs of grace that sooth and satisfy our souls. Sound-drops seep into the soil, softening the land of the heart while hydrating it with divine wisdom. Right there, right here, the oasis springs up where we stand in the showering sound, and a lotus sprouts within its center - the very core of the core of the heart. Let us hear...