SUFI TAKSIM / 2022
A Music and Performance
about Spirituality and Belief
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Lyrics
O son of my mother
"You were born free as the shadow of the breeze
and free as the morning light in the sky.
Wherever you went, you chirped like the bird
and sang according to the divine inspiration.
You played among the morning roses
enjoying the light where you could see it.
You walked - as you pleased - through the meadows,
picking roses on the hills.
Thus God conceivedyou, son of existence
and so life threw you into this world.
Why accept the shame of chains?
Why lower your forehead before those who have chained you?
Why choke in you the powerful voice of life
when its echo resounds?
Why close your illuminated eyelids before the light of dawn
when the light of dawn is sweet?
“Religion for me is a concept
that complements something extremely important
to the individual
that brings him something to complete
his identity, his thought, his philosophy of life
I've only done science,
I've only done rational things
throughout my career
and it's true that I've always been taught to
believe in what I see
by demonstration, by the existential of something material
otherwise it's hard to believe
Spirituality is something completely different
it has absolutely nothing to do with it
and my mind was forged like that
and often I try to force it
to think differently
I give myself the freedom
to tell myself that not everything is rational
not everything is material
and at the same time
I do not dive into a closed belief
Your deep conviction is nothing other than
what comes from you
from yourself
it is of course impacted
by custom, by traditions, your education
what you have been able to instill in you at a given moment
your story
A religion if it is really what it should
obviously it must also question itself in relation
to the evolution of the world.”