Lama B

“Spirituality means both accepting and mastering one’s instincts: living one’s natural desires in the light of one’s principles is a prayer. It is never a misdeed, nor is it hypocrisy.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad

“Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad