Human beings resemble peregrine falcons: they had the power and the ability to soar up to the skies, free and ethereal and unrestrained, but sometime… - Elif Şafak
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Human beings resemble peregrine falcons: they had the power and the ability to soar up to the skies, free and ethereal and unrestrained, but sometimes they would also, either under duress or of their own free will, accept captivity...She had also observed how a hood would be put on these noble raptors to make sure they would not panic. Seeing was knowing, and knowing was frightening...But underneath that hood where there were no directions, and the sky and the land melted into a swathe of black linen, though comforted, the falcon would still feel nervous, as if in preparation for a blow that could come at any moment. Years later now, it seemed to her that religion – and power and money and ideology and politics – acted like a hood too. All these superstitions and predictions and beliefs deprived human beings of sight, keeping them under control, but deep within weakening their self-esteem to such a point that they now feared anything, everything.
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Elif Şafak
Elif Shafak (born October 25, 1971) is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, academic, public speaker and women's rights activist.
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She was no part of anything. In her unbroken loneliness, she was complete. Never had she felt so exposed, yet si powerful.
تقول القاعدة الاربعون انه لا قيمة للحياة من دون عشق لا تسأل نفسك ما نوع العشق الذي تريده روحي ام مادي الهي ام دنيوي غربي ام شرقي فالانقسمات لا تؤدي الا لمزيد من الانقسمات ليس للعشق تعريق و لا انما هو كما هو نقي و بسيط العشق ماء الحياه.... و العشيق هو روح النار يصبح الكون مختلفا عندما تعشق النار الماء مذهلة ارشحها دائمًا
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I’ve been thinking that you are my country. Is that a strange thing to say? Without you, I don’t have a home in this world; I am a felled tree, my roots severed all round; you can topple me with the touch of a finger.
