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By Dr. Pooyan Ghamari
Water is the gentlest element known to us, yet nothing can stand against its persistence.
This apparent contradiction has fascinated philosophers, mystics, and seekers of metaphysics for centuries.
Within the wisdom of water lies the secret of human endurance—
the recognition that a person can be soft and still remain unbreakable.
The Qur’an captures this life-giving power in a single verse:
“From water We made every living thing.”
Life begins in water, and hidden within this truth is a profound lesson:
that creation, continuity, and survival arise not from harshness, but from softness.
The Torah declares:
“The Spirit of God moved upon the waters.”
In other words, the first stage of creation unfolded upon water—
a substance receptive, flexible, and ready to take shape.
The Gospel portrays water as a symbol of cleansing and transformation,
reminding us that spiritual renewal does not come from severity, but from flow.
A similar understanding appears deeply in Persian thought.
Khayyam writes:
“The cloud returned and wept again upon the green.”
Life, he tells us, reemerges after hardship—
just as water finds its way through stone
and refuses to be stopped by any barrier.
Shams Tabrizi considered water to be the emblem of the awakened soul:
a force that does not fight yet prevails,
does not strike yet creates,
remains soft yet breaks what is rigid.
Pythagoras saw the world through the harmony of numbers
and regarded water as the most harmonious element.
Whatever vessel holds it, water takes the shape—
yet it never loses its own essence.
This is the model of true human strength:
flexibility without forgetting one’s nature.
Eastern teachings add another insight:
the calmest water can be the most powerful,
for its strength is not in sudden blows but in consistency and endurance.
In metaphysical traditions, water represents psychic flow, resilience, adaptation, and survival.
It teaches that a person breaks only when they grow rigid,
and finds power only when they remain fluid.
If water were hard, it would shatter.
If it were stubborn, it would stagnate and decay.
But because it stays soft,
it cuts pathways through mountains,
nurtures cities,
becomes an ocean,
rises as cloud,
returns as rain,
and continually renews life.
Water instructs us that true power lies in softness—
in accepting movement,
in changing form without losing one’s identity,
in passing quietly through the toughest obstacles
without anger, pressure, or violence.
This is the path of the conscious human being:
not rigidity,
not breaking,
not wearing down,
but flowing.
For in the end,
it is water that endures,
and the mountain that crumbles.
The secret of water
is, in truth, the secret of the human spirit—
the art of being soft and yet impossible to defeat.