THE MIRROR

Everything that finds its light reflects!

The journey to the higher Self to reach integrity is best described with the below words of Ibn Arabi:

"Beings come, become mirrors of divine names, appear and disappear."

Look in the mirror. Who is visible? Who watches? Which one is real? The watcher or the watched? Are you looking at the image, or are you being looked at?

The world is a house of mirrors. One's reflection falls on another. You are watching yourself from each mirror. Whether you complain or smile. Whatever you complain about, you are a part of it. Whatever you smile, you have a share of it. Everyone and everything can be a mirror for you to see yourself. You see your beauties and shortcomings in these mirrors and arrange yourself accordingly. As you change yourself, your image in the mirrors beautifies and improves.

Humans do not separate themselves from the whole in their first years. Since the ego and the soul have not yet sharpened, they have not yet fallen into the delusion that nothing they see or hear is separate from themselves. The child's encounter with the mirror begins with the saddest loneliness. The 'Me and the Other' era has already started. A division as Me and the Other also causes a division regarding everything human. There is no escape from it.

The moment one encounters the Other, the journey begins. Unable to see their egoSelf (nafs) with their own eyes, the humans first start to watch their shape in a mirror and then their meaning on others' faces and begin to rotate around their axis with the reflected images they call as beautiful or ugly, good or bad. Generally, this course is often accompanied by a sense of strangeness. Human nature is not content to know themselves only by their image; one also wants to dive deep and, at times, is not afraid to explore the endless bottom of the depths.

However, the human mind is dead. The mind is just like dust collected in a mirror. The more dust is collected, the less clear is the mirror. And if the dust layer is too thick, the mirror will no longer reflect anything. Everyone collects dust. In fact, not only do you collect it, but you also hold on to it, thinking it's a treasure. Past is past; Why are you still holding on? You can't do anything about it anymore. It is not a treasure of the past. But if you hold on to the past and consider it a treasure, your mind wants to live it over and over in the future. The future cannot be anything but a modified past - a little refined and more embellished. But it will be like the past because your mind cannot think about the unknown. Your mind can only reflect what is known, what you think you know. That means help is needed.

There are unique mirrors that show you with all your meanings and attributes. When you look at one of them, you will feel that you have found your lack of meaning and see yourself with all your qualities if you are lucky to meet them. When you look at one of them, you will feel that you have found your lack of meaning and become one with the Other. As you give new meanings to the attributes, the hidden dimensions of your soul begin to appear. You leave yourself in cycles; in the orbit and center of the mirror held to you, you start to eliminate all your dust and whirl. After a while, you learn that that mirror will always reflect you and all your masks. Those persons show you just as you are without judging or accusing. Moreover, they make you explore all without realizing... the realization occurs when you know you have already changed.

This is expressed in Horatius's sentence, "quid rides de te fabula narratur" (what you laugh at is your story), which is a beginning for the traveler. Everything told, shown, and expressed is addressed to you. The captain of the journey is a mirror that shows yourSelf to you. Either you get off the boat, or you continue the journey. When you leave the ship, the torment awaits you for whatever you have disembarked from the boat, whether it is a taboo or an emotion.

He is a soul alchemist. With him, you realize the limits and layers of your existence. And every time you notice it, a new dimension is added to your being and goes on and on in endless cycles as long as you can breathe...