Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
Interpretation
Life is about exploring beyond our current boundaries and experiences.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that true essence and fulfillment in life exist beyond our immediate surroundings and limitations. It encourages individuals to transcend their familiar territories, both physically and metaphorically, in pursuit of deeper meaning and liberation.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire students to seek adventures beyond their hometowns.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds β across shallow swamps.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
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