My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
Interpretation
Inner peace is essential for achieving harmony with others, regardless of their backgrounds.
This quote by Tariq Ramadan emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and inner tranquility in fostering peaceful relationships with others from diverse backgrounds. It suggests that personal conflicts or a lack of self-peace can hinder our ability to truly connect and coexist with people of different religions and cultures, highlighting the need for introspection and resolution of one's own internal struggles.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a cultural awareness workshop to emphasize the importance of understanding oneself.
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace.
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.
God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
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