Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
TARIQ RAMADANCultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.
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When you’re overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
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We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.
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Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
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If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
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We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.
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If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.
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Your heart is the center of humility, your mind could be the source of arrogance.
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If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won’t apologise though, or justify my point of view.
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If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don’t understand the objective.
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Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
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