Fethullah Gulen and the Gulen Movement

I guess I wanted to divide my remarks into two levels . . . and one level is a personal level, to thank you for the invitation, but not only the invitation to me, but actually for bringing Char along . . . you had really only asked one person, so I really want to thank you for that . . . it is awfully generous . . . and also on the personal level, this trip, the experience that I sensed, you know, throughout the trip was like almost being able to absorb too much in terms of my eyes . . . when people talk about sometimes our eyes are bigger than our stomachs because we’re eating too much –which we have done on this trip. But it’s also as if we saw too much, if you know what I mean, in other words that so much is coming in . . . but you want it to come in, because you don’t want to restrict it . . . and that has been my sense in terms of this experience . . . not only in places like Cappadocia, but when Charlotte and I were walking today we were walking down from the Suleymaniye palace down through the bazaar where the average people lived and bought things, not the Grand Bazaar where most tourists might be, but the bazaar where the average people bought . . . I was just saying to Char, that I was so glad that we sort of “tripped” on this way to come down . . .