One day they asked a saint, "What is the difference between those who only talk about love and those who actually live it and keep it alive?"... "I'll show you," said the saint and invited those who had not been able to bring love from the tongue to the heart to a meal. Along with hot soups in huge hollow plates, one meter long spoons called "dervish spoons" were brought to the table.

"You will hold the ends of these spoons and eat your meals that way," Ermiş told the guests.

Because the spoons were too long, they could not take the soup to their mouths without spilling it. They were all very angry and left the table hungry and exhausted.

The next day, people who knew and lived true love, whose faces were shining, whose eyes were smiling with love, came and sat at the table.

"Here you go," said the saint. Each of them dipped his long spoon into the soup and put it in the mouth of his brother sitting opposite him. Each of them fed the other and they got up from the table with gratitude.

"Here," said the saint, "whoever sees only himself at the table of life and thinks of being full will remain hungry. Whoever thinks of his brother and feeds him, he will surely be fed by his brother."

Thank you for your interest in my article titled "Pray right". In another article I said, "The universe is a system and all systems seek balance; the universe also seeks balance. So the more we give, the more we get. This is true for prayers and wishes as well as for matter and love. Prayers and wishes are made for the whole and for everyone, starting with ourselves. Human-based ethics and human-based morality are acceptable. Selfishness and omnivorousness is a negative energy, an energy that harms human beings and disrupts the balance.

"In the market of life, it is always the giver who wins, not the taker." says Cengiz Erşahin, as if in spite of Thomas Hobbes, who said that the sense of greed and competition in human beings is inherent and innate... According to Hobbes, "Man is the wolf of man." and man devours other people for his own selfish world and interests... In my opinion, if all beings are parts of a single whole, then in this case, man devours himself and harms himself...

Balance also applies to love. What we think of a person is exactly what they think of you. The more we love someone, the more they love or dislike us to the same degree and in the same amount. You can tell how much you are loved by how much you love, this is an immutable rule. When there is love, there is no selfishness. Love for human beings and beings is a completely different feeling that cannot be selfish. Maybe the time of people who don't sleep when their neighbor is hungry has passed, maybe we don't even know the name of our next-door neighbor anymore, maybe even two people come face to face in the elevator and avert our eyes, maybe we see each other too much, but love will never end and will continue to create miracles. As long as life exists...

It shouldn't be so difficult to share a slice of bread with a neighbor, or a glass of water. While people are dying of hunger in one corner of the world, don't throw away tons of bread in another! Don't be afraid, please don't run out, the more you give, the more you increase, you don't decrease... If we are responsible for 40 neighbors around us, why are people still dying of hunger? Don't we have a responsibility even if there is only one person dying of hunger? Let's not forget the dignity of being human not only on holy days and holidays, but every moment and everywhere!

"Letting people starve to death is the same as holding them and killing them" (P. SINGER)

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber