Lesley Hazleton Quotes

#1. Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

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#2. She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.

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#3. Whether you think the words he heard came from inside himself or from outside, it is clear that Muhammad experienced them, and with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world.

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#4. Machiavelli himself famously put it: "All armed prophets have conquered, and unarmed prophets have come to grief."9

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#5. I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

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#6. There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

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#7. Treated by his own people as one of them yet not one of them, he couldn't help but be aware of the contradictions inherent in a society that was supposed to be his, but seemed to have no place for him.

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#8. Female infanticide was as high in Mecca as in Constantinople, Athens, and Rome - a practice the Quran was to address directly and condemn repeatedly.

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#9. Yet the greater the turmoil inside him, the more the revelations responded to it. It was as though the Quranic voice was able to see deep inside him and address questions he was barely aware he was asking.

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#10. Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.

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#11. How did the infant sent away from his family grow up to redefine the whole concept of family and tribe into something far larger: the umma, the people or the community of Islam?

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#12. In more metaphysical terms, it becomes a safe place in which one sleeps, dreams, and grows before emerging back into the world. Either way, it's a place not merely of shelter, but of incubation.

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#13. Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

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#14. All ancient polytheisms revered one high god above all others.

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