Soul’s Sacred Song: A Journey to Divine Transparency
In the Diamond Approach®, the love of truth is a guiding principle and the essence of the path. It emphasizes a deep, intrinsic devotion to discovering the truth in all its forms—personal, universal, and spiritual. This orientation to the love of truth propels the seeker to authentically and sincerely explore their inner world, leading to profound realizations and transformations. The Diamond Approach nurtures a genuine unfolding of the soul’s potential and intimate connection with the Divine by prioritizing truth over comfort or preconceived notions.
Within each soul
There is music
Only God can hear
The notes and tones she sings
Tell her unique story
Pain of separation
Deep longing
Sweet melting
Exquisite beauty
Singing her life
She moves into
A pure nakedness
Where her rhythm
Is a great stillness
Here she is
Completely transparent
To His
Loving eyesJohn Harper
Within each of us, a sacred music exists, an eternal melody that only the Divine can truly hear. This inner music, woven from the very fabric of our being, tells the unique story of our soul—a story of longing, separation, beauty, and, ultimately, union.
In the poem, we encounter a soul singing its life, moving through phases of deep longing and sweet melting to reach a pure nakedness and stillness before God. This journey is one of profound transformation, where the soul sheds its layers, becoming completely transparent to the loving gaze of the Divine.
The mystics have long spoken of this intimate dance between the soul and the Divine. Rumi, the beloved Sufi poet, captures this sentiment perfectly:
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
This river, this inner music, expresses the soul’s deepest truths, flowing naturally and beautifully when we align with our true nature.
Kabir, the Indian mystic and poet, reflects on the soul’s relationship with the Divine:
“The moon shines in my body. The light of the moon is in me, but the blind eyes do not see it.”
This evokes the idea that the Divine is already present within us, and through the process of inner awakening, we come to recognize and embrace this truth.
The poem also speaks to the pain of separation, a theme that resonates deeply with the writings of Rabia al-Basri, an 8th-century Sufi mystic. Rabia’s devotion to God was so profound that she famously prayed:
“O Lord, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship You for Your own sake, withhold not from me Your everlasting Beauty.”
Her words capture the soul’s longing for union with the Divine, a longing that transcends any worldly desire.
As the soul moves through this process, it reaches a place of stillness—a rhythm that is no longer marked by outward movement but by profound inner quiet. This is the silence of the mystics, where words fall away, and only the pure essence of love remains.
“Be still and know that I am God,” the psalmist writes, reminding us that in stillness, we come to the deepest knowing of our true nature and intimate connection with the Divine.
Finally, the soul becomes transparent, naked before God, there is no hiding, only the pure, unfiltered gaze of love. Meister Eckhart, a 13th-century Christian mystic, beautifully captures this state:
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
Here, in this place of oneness, the soul’s music is not just heard by God—it becomes one with the Divine symphony, an eternal song of love that reverberates through all of existence.
We’re invited to listen closely to the music within our souls. It calls us to embark on a journey of divine intimacy, where our pain, longing, and beauty are all transformed in the presence of infinite love. In this journey, we move closer to the truth of who we are—transparent, still, and completely embraced by the loving eyes of the Divine.