Exile toward the Beginning --by Tariq RAMADAN

Where to? Where to then? Towards Him, towards you, close to Him in you. Before your eyes is a child ... life, dependence, fragility and innocence. Pride is to affirm outward independence by maintaining the illusion of liberty at the heart of one’s being. Humility is to rediscover the breath of the primordial need of Him at the heart of our being, in order to live in total outward independence.