Casa Robino

Elif Shafak : The Politics of Fiction
When the poet and mystic Rumi met his spiritual companion Shams of Tabriz, one of the first things the later did was to toss his book into the water and watch the letters disolve. The sufis say that knowledge which takes you not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance. The problem with today’s cultural ghettos is not lack of knowledge; we know a lot about each other, or so we think, but knowledge that takes us not beyond ourselves…it makes us elitist, distant and disconnected.