We are looking at phenomena and events as our properties. We resort to keep them for ourselves . Instead of trying to learn ,we try to collect the information.
People tend to collect and love to “belong” rather than to “be” and simply live. We are looking at phenomena as our properties. We resort to them to keep them for ourselves, we should try to learn in place of collecting the information.
Instead of enjoying welfare and money ,we try to save them for future. Instead of giving our children the opportunities to live and enjoy their presence,we try to keep them for ourselves like our assets, we force them to live like us,and believe what we do.
Instead of enjoying the moments,we try to take pictures to own those moments and memories.
Maybe it's a sign that we are looking for stability. We wish to preserve everything in their best shapes. We wish to stay young and healthy forever. We want to have our dearest relatives stay with us forever. We wish our belongings remain always new.
All of these prove that we are looking for stability and pause, which lead us to experience stress and anxiety . We are afraid to lose this permenancy of our situations. While nothing in this world has stability, nothing is permanent; this is the law that we forget. And if we dare to accept this important law, we will reach peace and tranquility.
“Everything is transient ,only God will stay forever.”
Rumi learned it from Shams and reached peace and profound calmness.
Our efforts to constitute the stability are doomed to fail.
Our efforts to stabilization make us unstable. Whenever we try to preserve a phenomenon as it is,we become distressed and suffer unreasonable pain.
People’s restlessness is caused by their attempt to keep the stability.
After Rumi met shams, he realized that “the only fixed and inalterable thing in the world is instability “ .
And we are breaking this law continuously and try to make everything in our lives permanent
If we learn from Rumi and let our lives flow and accept changes, we will taste profound peace.
Passionate people are looking for you impatiently
Be the impatient lover to achieve the patience.
Author: Hamid Taj
Translator: Parvin
Date:25/2/95