#salman

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#india #religion #rushdie #salman #religion

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. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#inspirational #karen-salmansohn #inspirational