When divine love becomes the Wi-Fi signal of the soul, you start to wonder if enlightenment just needs better tech support.
“Be in the world without being in the world” — sounds deep until you realise it’s the spiritual version of “I’m not like other souls.”
Hermit Off Script
This is where the modern hermit tries to keep one foot in the world and the other somewhere above the clouds, then acts surprised when he pulls a spiritual groin. I am told I do not need a monastery, do not need seclusion, do not need to reject the world as a system, and yet somehow I am still expected to live by the grand anti-rule that the only rule is whatever I feel in my heart. Splendid. Civilisation built roads, sewage systems and tax deadlines, and I arrive with “my feelings said so” as if that is a serious operating manual. The heart becomes judge, priest, compass, constitution and customer service desk, while analysis is quietly shoved out the back door like an unwanted sceptic at a mystics’ brunch. Then love appears not as choice, not as reason, not as culture, family or history, but as a divine gift stamped directly onto the soul image, as if heaven itself has a private courier service for longing. From there the claims grow properly ambitious. Divine love is no longer just a feeling but an absolute state, a near-deity, a total field of existence embracing everything seen and unseen, which is wonderfully convenient because anything that cannot be checked can now be declared spiritually true. The modern hermit, I am assured, is alone outside but not inside, which sounds noble until you realise it is also the cleanest way to romanticise permanent outer isolation. Then comes the utopian finale: one day enlightened soul images will all connect inwardly, religion will become obsolete, racism and hatred will be relegated to primitive history, and suffering will apparently pack its bags because everyone finally got the right frequency of divine affection. It is a beautiful dream, but at times it reads less like revelation and more like loneliness dressed in ceremonial light. And that final advice, “Be a sinner … But full of divine love”, is either profound spiritual tension or the most elegant loophole ever written. The world asks for discernment, and this passage keeps handing it incense.
What does not make sense
“No rules except what your heart feels” — right, because civilisation runs great on feelings alone.
“Religions will be a thing of the past” — sure, after humans stop tweeting politics.
“Be a sinner, but full of divine love” — a poetic loophole for every bad decision ever.
“The modern hermit will always be alone in the outside world but not inside” — that’s just introversion with branding.
“All souls will be connected through divine love” — sounds like the afterlife’s first group call.
"My mind tried to conquer these feelings like ‘God is Love’. My heart intuitively created a space in my mind for the inception of the idea that ‘Love is God’."— Raz Mihal
7.9 billion humans — and every single one thinks their “heart truth” is the correct one. Statistically, that’s a lot of conflicting divine love. (Source: UN Population Data 2025)
84% of the world still identifies with a religion. Enlightenment hasn’t replaced Sunday service yet. (Source: Pew Research Center)
0 scientific confirmations of “soul Wi-Fi.” The signal remains metaphorical. (Source: Nature Human Behaviour Journal)
1 constant pattern — people preach freedom, then write a rulebook for it. (Source: Common Sense Department, est. forever)
The sketch
Scene 1: A hermit meditates in a noisy café. A barista yells: “Oat or almond?” Hermit replies, eyes closed: “Be in the world, not of it.” Scene 2: He tries logging into “SoulNet.” Connection error: Heart not found. Try again later. Scene 3: A divine light shines. Voice from above: “You are love.” Hermit smiles. Voice adds: “Also, you missed your rent payment.”
What to watch, not the show
The confusion between feeling spiritual and being responsible.
The seductive myth that love fixes what discipline avoids.
The recycling of sacred ideas into shareable quotes.
The quiet arrogance of claiming “divine” while ignoring “human.”
The illusion that love alone replaces structure, when love itself needs one.
The Hermit take
You can be in the world without drowning in it — but don’t pretend detachment is enlightenment. Divine love might save souls, but it still needs signal bars. Be a sinner if you must. Just sin with self-awareness, not hashtags and don’t sanctify the Wi-Fi password.
Keep or toss
Keep (for reflection and ridicule both).
Sources
UN – World Population Prospects 2025: https://population.un.org/wpp/
Pew Research Center – The Global Religious Landscape: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/
Nature Human Behaviour – Consciousness and Collective Cognition Studies: https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/
Common Sense Department – Everyday Observations Archive (fictional, satire)
Raz Mihal, Just Love Her (2024 Edition), Chapter: The Modern Hermit, pp. 101–102:
THE MODERN HERMIT 12 Nov 2019 Be in the world without being in the world … Following the practice of divine love reflection into our souls doesn’t require us to retire from the world in a monastery or live secluded, but it does require us not to reject the world as a system. It embraces everything from existence and adapts to the destinies of our soul images. The rules are that there are no rules other than what you feel in your heart. This means that if you feel love, then feel it … never give up on that feeling. These so-called rules are not imposed and consist of being constantly aware of divine love refl ected in our souls. The instrument that makes you follow and respect the practice is the heart’s feelings. That’s why when you fall in love with a soul image through divine love reflection, it is induced by heart feelings and nothing else. It looks like a gift because it’s not something you analyse before, nor is it decided by the actions of other involved relations (parents, tradition, culture and so on). In the end, you become aware of the divine love existence as a deity, although it’s not the best representation, more like a state of absolute and infinite existence embracing forms and energies, seen and unseen, manifested or not. The modern hermit in the present reality will always be alone in the outside world but not inside. Even if other soul images embrace the vision of divine love, our bodies and minds are not prepared yet to live connected inside. In the future, when so many soul images are enlightened, the inner world will overcome the outside world, and the connection between souls will be awakened as a part of our human bodies. Religions will be a thing of the past. Who needs religion when divine love is revealed inside our hearts? Also, racism, discrimination of any form, prejudice and hate will be seen as a documentary of the primitive human beings from history. Who will want to suffer when all enlightened soul images are connected inside through divine love? Word of advice: ‘Be a sinner … But full of divine love.’
