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.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. Itβs the astonishment of being myself
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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