Ashish Pandey

“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Three specific qualities rise from this system of creation binding everything together. The first quality (sattva) is truth and goodness, and is the bond to purity, happiness and wisdom. The second is passion (rajas) and is the bond to compulsion and attachment. The third is indifference and ignorance (tamas), and is the bond to ignorance, delusion, sloth and indolence.”
― Edward Viljoen, Bhagavad Gita For Beginners: The Song Of God In Simplified Prose

“about the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on him with my own.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love