Swiss - Writer | August 26, 1962 -
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
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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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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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