Love Exists Within Each Of Us From

I Like To Borrow A Metaphor From The Great Poet And Mystic Rumi Who Talks About Living Like A Drawing Compass. One Leg Of The Compass Is Static. It Is Fixed And Rooted In A Certain Spot. Meanwhile, The Other Leg Draws A Huge Wide Circle Around The First One, Constantly Moving. Just Like That, One Part Of My Writing Is Based In Istanbul. It Has Strong Local Roots. Yet At The Same Time The Other Part Travels The Whole Wide World, Feeling Connected To Several Cities, Cultures, And Peoples.

Personally, I Didn't Think There Was Anything Wrong With Sadness. Just The Opposite – Hypocrisy Made People Happy And Truth Made Them Sad.

Real Filth Is The One Inside. The Rest Simply Washes Off. There Is Only One Type Of Dirt That Cannot Be Cleansed With Pure Waters, And That Is The Stain Of Hatred And Bigotry Contaminating The Soul. You Can Purify Your Body Through Abstinence And Fasting, But Only Love Will Purify Your Heart.

No Matter Who We Are Or Where We Live, Deep Inside We All Feel Incomplete. It's Like We Have Lost Something And Need To Get It Back. Just What That Something Is, Most Of Us Never Find Out. And Of Those Who Do, Even Fewer Manage To Go Out And Look For It.

Turkey In General Became Too Involved With What Is Happening In Egypt And In Syria. Some Politicians With Neo-ottoman Dreams Developed This Idea Of Being A Major Player In The Middle East, Which Hasn't Gone As Expected.