Vijay Gopal

“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”
― Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Recall that a great deal of juggling among the poor comes from fighting everyday fires. If we can help people fight these fires, we will create new bandwidth.”
― Sendhil Mullainathan, Scarcity: Why having too little means so much

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
― Richard Rohr