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Ters köşeleri seviyorsan, seni sonuna kadar merakta bırakacak 3 kitap önerisini keşfetmeye hazır ol!
MUSTAFA KEMAL was twenty, wiry in build, with a tough constitution and unlimited vitality.
He had no experience of life. Salonika had been a mean little port; Lazaran a country village; Monastir a dull provincial town. He had none of his mother's deep beliefs or principles to keep him steady.
At once he plunged wildly into the unclean life of the great metropolis of Constantinople. Night after night he gambled and drank in the cafes and restaurants. With women he was not fastidious. A figure, a face in profile, a laugh, could set him on fire and reaching out to get the woman, whatever she was.
Sometimes it would be with the Greek and Armenian harlots in the bawdy-houses in the garbage-stinking streets by Galata Bridge, where came the pimps and the homosexualists to cater for all the vices; then for a week or two a Levantine lady in her house in Pangaldi; or some Turkish girl who came veiled and by back-ways in fear of the police to some maison de rendez-vous in Pera or Stambul.
He fell in love with none of them. He was never sentimental or romantic. Without a pang of conscience he passed rapidly from one to the next. He satisfied his appetite and was gone.
He was completely Oriental in his mentality: women had no place in his life except to satisfy his sex. He plunged deep down into the lecherous life of the city. Suddenly he reacted from all this rioting and concentrated on his work with the same energy.
Through uniting with the self we reach the God, who unites heaven and hell in himself. The self is not God, although we reach the God through the self. The God has the power, not the self. Powerlessness should thus not be deplored, rather it is the condition that should abide.The God acts from within himself. This should be left to him. What we do to the self, we do to the God. If we twist the self, we also twist the God.
It is divine service to serve oneself.
(Kendilikle birleşme yoluyla Tanrı’ya ulaşırız; Tanrı, cennet ile cehennemi kendi içinde birleştirir. Kendilik Tanrı değildir; ancak Tanrı’ya kendilik aracılığıyla ulaşırız. Tanrı kudrete sahiptir, kendilik değil. Bu nedenle güçsüzlük hayıflanılacak bir durum değil, aksine sürdürülmesi gereken bir hâl olarak kabul edilmelidir. Tanrı kendi iradesiyle hareket eder. Bu iş O’na bırakılmalıdır. Benliğe yaptığımızı, Tanrı’ya da yapıyoruz. Benliği çarpıtırsak, Tanrı’yı da çarpıtmış oluruz.
Kişinin kendisine hizmet etmesi, ilahi bir hizmettir.)