Love Cannot Be Explained, Yet It Explains

Ways Of Loving From A Distance, Mating Without Even Touching-amor Platonicus! The Ladder Of Love One Is Expected To Climb Higher And Higher, Elating The Self And The Other. Plato Clearly Regards Any Actual Physical Contact As Corrupt And Ignoble Because He Thinks The True Goal Of Eros Is Beauty. Is There No Beauty In Sex? Not According To Plato. He Is After `more Sublime Pursuits.' But If You Ask Me, I Think Plato's Problem, Like Those Of Many Others, Was That He Never Got Splendidly Laid.

Loneliness And Solitude Are Two Different Things. When You Are Lonely, It Is Easy To Delude Yourself Into Believing That You Are On The Right Path. Solitude Is Better For Us, As It Means Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely. But Eventually It Is Best To Find A Person, The Person Who Will Be Your Mirror. Remember, Only In Another Person's Heart Can You Truly See Yourself And The Presence Of God Within You.

I See Two Opposite Tendencies In Turkish Society: People Feel Demoralized, They Lose The Interest In Politics And Retreat To Their Private Lives; Or They Become Very Angry And Even More Politicized, And Radicalized. Both Trends Are Troublesome.

I Remember A Time When It Was Ok To Make Fun Of Politicians And Powerful People. Now, It's Not Ok Anymore. We've Forgotten How To Laugh.

But Let Us Not Forget That Cities Are Like Human Beings. They Are Born, They Go Through Childhood And Adolescence, They Grow Old, And Eventually They Die