I See Two Opposite Tendencies In Turkish

Article Five: If You Have No Reason Or Ability To Accomplish Anything, Then Just Practice The Art Of Becoming.

Stop Running After The Waves. Let The Sea Come To You.

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.

Hell Is In The Here And Now. So Is Heaven. Quit Worrying About Hell Or Dreaming About Heaven, As They Are Both Present Inside Us This Very Moment. Every Time We Fall In Love, We Ascend To Heaven. Every Time We Hate, Envy, Or Fight Someone, We Tumble Straight Into The Fires Of Hell.

Patience Does Not Mean To Passively Endure. It Means To Be Farsighted Enough To Trust The End Result Of A Process. What Does Patience Mean? It Means To Look At The Thorn And See The Rose, To Look At The Night And See The Dawn. Impatience Means To Be So Shortsighted As To Not Be Able To See The Outcome. The Lovers Of God Never Run Out Of Patience, For They Know That Time Is Needed For The Crescent Moon To Become Full.