📖 2. Reflections

📍Excerpt from Reflections – ‘The Embrace of Solitude’
In my belief, those who truly come to know inner peace, spiritual strength and moral growth often reach that point only after having paid the price of solitude — or rather, after consciously walking toward it, seeking to know themselves and find a deeper, purer understanding of life’s true meaning.

These individuals are not tempted by lives of comfort or approval. They deliberately choose a life of honesty and courage, in search of soul liberation and detachment from worldly attachments and ingrained habits.

Along this self-chosen path, they soon discover new ways of thinking and seeing — insights that bring answers to many inner questions and feelings.

People with a pure soul experience time intensely. They radiate warmth and positive energy to everything around them, helping all who cross their path with patience and sincerity, walking gently among others. They feel connected to everyone and know no hatred, no resentment, no jealousy.

Even the most corrupt souls they see as wounded beings — people who, especially early in life, lacked love and affection and thus became trapped in dark thoughts and deeds.

And perhaps, it is precisely these dark ones who play a role in giving meaning to a divine life, making heavenly beauty truly tangible on Earth.

— Ario Vahabi

📍Reflection of a Poor Man
When you are poor, life becomes nothing more than a routine. Joy becomes an unreachable idea, and the daily grind pushes you forward — it’s that simple.

From material poverty to intellectual lack, from psychological emptiness to spiritual hunger — each challenges you in its own way. Perhaps with great effort you escape one form, only to find yourself trapped in another. A path that moves from one beginning to the next and each time you look back, you ask yourself: how long has this road been? Where was I and what is my destination?

Exhausted in this cycle, overwhelmed and lost in thought, you reach a moment when you believe you’ve understood something, that you’ve arrived somewhere. But what have you understood, and where have you arrived?
Neither I nor anyone else can say. Perhaps you’ve merely realized that no one ever truly arrives anywhere — and in that moment, you stand on the threshold of a truth that cannot be spoken, a truth that can’t be told but only found.
In the garden of love, just a few steps from the tree of friendship.

— Ario Vahabi

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