He describes himself as belonging to a group whose degree of spirituality is such that ‘their hearts are in the Gardens [of Paradise] while their bodies are at work’.147 The fact of being ‘tied’ or ‘attached’ to that realm, consisting of the paradisal abodes, right up to the divine Presence itself, implies then, that they are already ‘within’ that transcendent realm, more than they are in this earthly one.
