The Past Lives Within The Present, And

If You Want To Experience Eternal Illumination, Put The Past And The Future Out Of Your Mind And Remain Within The Present Moment.

Our Politics Is Very Masculine, Very Aggressive, And It's Very Polarizing. And The Pace Of This Development Has Increased In Recent Years. Erdogan Is, In My Eyes, The Most Polarizing Politician In Recent Turkish Political History.

A Life Without Love Is Of No Account. Don't Ask Yourself What Kind Of Love You Should Seek, Spiritual Or Material, Divine Or Mundane, Eastern Or Western. Divisions Only Lead To More Divisions. Love Has No Labels, No Definitions. It Is What It Is, Pure And Simple. “love Is The Water Of Life. And A Lover Is A Soul Of Fire! “the Universe Turns Differently When Fire Loves Water.

I See Two Opposite Tendencies In Turkish Society: People Feel Demoralized, They Lose The Interest In Politics And Retreat To Their Private Lives; Or They Become Very Angry And Even More Politicized, And Radicalized. Both Trends Are Troublesome.

We're Stuck. We're Stuck Between The East And The West. Between The Past And The Future. On The One Hand There Are The Secular Modernists, So Proud Of The Regime They Constructed, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The Army And Half Of The State On Their Side. On The Other Hand There Are The Conventional Traditionalist, So Infatuated With The Ottoman Past, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The General Public And The Remaining Half Of The State On Their Side.