Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Written by Dr. Ahmed Al-Qaisi
To practice the depth of your awareness with a superficial person is like trying to give medicine to a corpse.
For some souls do not lack medicine; they lack the pulse of awareness.
Awareness cannot be planted by force, nor can depths be understood by a mind accustomed only to the surface. For whoever sees life through a narrow window will never comprehend the vastness of the sky, no matter how much you explain the meaning of the horizon.
Therefore, not every silence is weakness, nor is every withdrawal defeat. Sometimes, the highest form of wisdom is to reserve your depth for those who know its value, and to protect the light of your mind from being consumed in a darkness that does not even wish to see.
And to practice the depth of your awareness with a superficial personality is like gifting a philosophical book to a passerby who only knows how to read headlines.
You explain, clarify, and exhaust your soul trying to express what you feel, while the other person sees nothing in life except its outer shell and hears from words only their passing echo.
Deep within, such a person realizes that the one before them surpasses them in thought and awareness, and possesses a greater degree of understanding and perception.
Minds are not equal, just as souls are not equal in their level of awareness. There are those who grasp meaning from your silence, and there are those whom thousands of words fail to awaken from their inner slumber and from the difficulty of removing the suspicions and misconceptions they hold, even when such assumptions are entirely misplaced.
A superficial person does not necessarily hurt you because they are evil, but because they are limited in vision. They live within easy spaces and fear diving into deep questions that reveal their fragility before themselves. They attempt to imitate an imaginary personality they invented, believing they can uncover others’ intentions or trap them, unaware that they themselves are exposed from the very beginning of their idea.
What exhausts conscious people most is not pain itself, but their endless attempts to make others see what they see, understand what they feel, and perceive those hidden details that give meaning to life.
Driven by the purity within them, they try endlessly. Yet the harsh truth remains: awareness cannot be handed out like gifts, nor imposed by force. Just as you cannot explain the beauty of music to someone who cannot hear, you cannot plant depth within a soul that has chosen to remain on the surface—like someone living upon the surface of Mars, unable to perceive the beauty around them or appreciate the value of what they possess, like a child who plays with a toy only to throw it away because they do not understand its deeper worth.
That is why aware people tire quickly. They give more of their souls than they should and consume their light in places drowned in darkness, where their rays cannot possibly illuminate such distant mental spaces.
Those spaces do not appreciate the light attempting to brighten them. With time, the aware realize that wisdom is not in convincing everyone, but in knowing who truly deserves that depth.
Maturity is not winning every argument, nor is intelligence constantly explaining yourself. True maturity is knowing when to remain silent and when to walk away peacefully, because some souls will never resemble yours no matter how hard you try to approach them.
In the end, awareness remains a heavy blessing. It allows you to see what others cannot see and feel what goes beyond words, yet it also teaches you that inner peace is more precious than wars of exhaustion with closed minds.
Such people justify whatever suits themselves and pass judgments that may not apply to others at all. Yet they recklessly launch attacks and contempt toward those before them. Here applies the saying: “One who lacks something cannot give it,” because of the deficiency in their perspective and their inability to engage in healthy dialogue and discussion.
It is very easy to unsheathe our swords and begin verbal battles filled with insults and belittlement. Yet it is very difficult to heal those wounds once we realize that we rushed into declaring wars and verbal battles against someone we merely assumed was wrong. Despite the heavy rain that falls, the sea water remains salty. Such is the wisdom and will of God. A sound mind resides within a sound body.
