Love Exists Within Each Of Us From

I Am Very Worried About This Concentration Of Power, And It's Not Only Because Of Erdogan. We Have The Ballot Box, But We Don't Have The Culture Of Democracy. The Government Says: You See, We Have The Majority, We're Entitled To Do Anything We Want. But That's Not Democracy, That's Majoritarianism.

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 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.

Because Time Is A Drop In The Ocean, And You Cannot Measure Off One Drop Against Another To See Which One Is Bigger, Which One Is Smaller.

I Slept Peacefully That Night, Feeling Exultant And Determined. Little Did I Know That I Was Making The Most Common And The Most Painful Mistake Women Have Made All Throughout The Ages: To Naively Think That With Their Love They Can Change The Man They Love.