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.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
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