For days I can’t stop listening to the sounds of the desert. When I write, meditate, or just sit in the dark at night.
The wind never rests. Sand drifts, dunes shift. It reminds me of our life—so much motion, yet nothing really changes. “Our” life, the life of humankind, it has always been this way and always will be.
There’s only one difference: the desert doesn’t try to change itself. It is what it is—flowing slowly into its own endlessness.
Such self-sufficiency makes the desert generous. All you need is to place yourself within it—physically or in your mind. Listen to the wind. Study the patterns of the dunes. Let the warm sand slip between your toes.
Silently, the desert works its magic. It takes away everything unnecessary, foreign, and false—and in return, it weaves your soul into the eternity of being. Your own finitude stops frightening you. The desert is you.
Deep inside, each of us longs to connect with something vast. Sadly, we often choose substitutes—alcohol, ideology, tribes, consumption, the approval of the crowd, and so on.
Yet the path to the eternal is always within reach:
Water: a river, an ocean, a fountain.
Air: mountains, sky, stars.
Earth: a park, a forest, a desert.
Fire: a flame, creativity, beauty.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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