Article Five: If You Have No Reason

Article Five: If You Have No Reason Or Ability To Accomplish Anything, Then Just Practice The Art Of Becoming.

One Thing That Has Helped Me Personally In The Past Was To Stop Interfering With The People Around Me And Getting Frustrated When I Couldn’t Change Them. Instead Of Intrusion And Passivity, May I Suggest Submission? Some People Make The Mistake Of Confusing “submission” With “weakness”, Whereas It Is Anything But. Submission Is A Form Of Peaceful Acceptance Of The Terms Of The Universe, Including The Things We Are Currently Unable To Change Or Comprehend.

I Like To Borrow A Metaphor From The Great Poet And Mystic Rumi Who Talks About Living Like A Drawing Compass. One Leg Of The Compass Is Static. It Is Fixed And Rooted In A Certain Spot. Meanwhile, The Other Leg Draws A Huge Wide Circle Around The First One, Constantly Moving. Just Like That, One Part Of My Writing Is Based In Istanbul. It Has Strong Local Roots. Yet At The Same Time The Other Part Travels The Whole Wide World, Feeling Connected To Several Cities, Cultures, And Peoples.

We Were All Created In His Image, And Yet We Were Each Created Different And Unique. No Two People Are Alike. No Two Hearts Beat To The Same Rhythm. If God Had Wanted Everyone To Be The Same. He Would Have Made It So. Therefore, Disrespecting Differences And Imposing Your Thoughts On Others Is Tantamount To Disrespecting God’s Holy Scheme.

Loneliness And Solitude Are Two Different Things. When You Are Lonely, It Is Easy To Delude Yourself Into Believing That You Are On The Right Path. Solitude Is Better For Us, As It Means Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely. But Eventually It Is Best To Find A Person, The Person Who Will Be Your Mirror. Remember, Only In Another Person's Heart Can You Truly See Yourself And The Presence Of God Within You.