“He thinks he has lost his horse, and he makes the horse he rides run fast on the road with stubbornness and anger. That brave man thinks his horse is lost. The horse made him run like the wind. That fool screams, searches, scans, goes door to door, searches everywhere and asks: 'Where and who is it that stole my horse?' 'Sir, what is that creature under your thigh?' 'Yes, it is a horse; But where is this horse?' O brave rider looking for a horse, come to your senses! The soul is not visible because it is obvious and very close. "A human being is like a cube filled with water inside and a dry outside." (Hz. Mevlana, Mesnevi, vol. I, p. 90)
In this journey called life, we are often in search with a sense of loss and deficiency. Interestingly, we often experience discoveries whose magic disappears every time we say we found them. We sadly see that the things we cling to, saying "I found them", do not satisfy us. There may even come a day when you say, “everything is okay, but something is missing!” But what?" We say and are surprised. Consciously, we begin a new search to eliminate our feeling of lack, of which we only notice the symptoms and reflections.
However, our situation is not very different from the situation of a poor person who thinks that his horse is lost, but runs and searches for his horse again. In fact, we constantly search for ourselves. Because, as Yunus puts it, "You call me 'me', I'm not in me/There is a 'me' inside me", there is an 'I' in us and as we know it, our actions will find their meaning. Again, Yunus Emre points out this fact by saying, "Knowledge is knowing knowledge/Knowledge is knowing yourself/If you don't know yourself/What if you read a lot?" If a person's actions are not aimed at finding the 'I' within himself, this will not be complementary and satisfying. However, that most distinguished aspect of our existence waits to be discovered and developed. As we move away from our essence, our dissatisfaction increases.
The hustle and bustle of daily life separates people from their essence. When the soul is very close to the person, when it is inside, it remains buried under dreams, disappointments, regrets and hesitations. Then the feeling of losing him appears inside. Then we look outside to find that sense of wholeness and unity. We keep asking, "Where and who is it that stole my horse?" They ask us, 'Sir, what is that creature under your thigh?', but we say, 'Yes, it is a horse; But where is this horse? Like the brave man who said, we search for the soul, we search for our essence. We try to find it. But as humans, we often forget what we are looking for. When we don't know what we're looking for, we don't even realize what we've found. We keep searching.
However, when the direction of the search journey is towards oneself/one's own self, the search creates satisfaction. As a result of moving away from our own essence, we are surrounded by depression, anxiety, anxiety, turmoil and dissatisfaction. However, the only way, the only journey is the journey to the heart.
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