The Stillness at the Center

In everything that rotates, speed increases as one moves away from the center. The outermost layer may reach the highest speed, but it is also the farthest from the center and the most vulnerable to being swept away. Yet at the very center, at the axis of all movement, there is a point that remains in stillness. Without that point, rotation itself could not occur. Truth lies in the stillness at that center.

While everything in the universe is turning, the fact that human beings can “observe” this movement shows that they are able to anchor themselves somewhere outside that movement.

Scientifically speaking, there is no “absolutely stationary” frame of reference in the universe. The fact that everything moves relative to everything else shows that all things are bound to a single law.

Truth does not lie in the parts, the planets, the atoms, or human beings themselves, but in the Will and the Mathematics that turn them all at once, within a certain order, without letting them collide. The search for truth is an attempt to sense the “Choreographer” of this magnificent choreography.

The realization reached in the wonder of this intuitive contemplation makes everything else insignificant. If this level of realization were to become permanent, the human mind could not cope with an ecstasy that would strain its limits. While in that station of wonder, it could no longer adapt to daily life, surrounded as it is by material elements that have lost their meaning.

For this reason, the human being also turns and wanders within their own circle of becoming. When they look toward the center, toward truth, they may enter wonder, hayret. But when they look toward the periphery, toward life, they must make an effort, gayret.