Inclusive Quotes

“I call it "Higher Power" not to exclude any cultures/religions, as I feel everyone is pointing in the same direction, with different names, from different perspectives.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“My roots run deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Uncultured Idiot (Sonnet 2501-2502)

My roots run deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.

Starting out with an insatiable spark of expansion,
I spent my early teens devouring scriptures,
then my late teens and early twenties I spent
assimilating neuroscience and psychology,

but it wasn't until my late twenties,
a few years after my first publication,
that the original Naskarian voice started
to awaken, a voice not only beyond nation,
religion and culture, but also beyond
eurocentric intellectual convention.

So many things were unfolding in my mind
at once, that it's impossible for me to
piece together a coherent timeline of events.

But one thing was most striking, it's that,
influence of the puny eurocentric schools of thought
was beginning to wear off, as cultures of the world
found an ideal vessel with zero chains of tribalism.

I became empty and let the world pour its wonders
into me, so it did, and I burn day in, day out, and
each time from the ashes a new pluralist text is born,
blasting all archaic, elitist and exclusivist narrative.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“If you must be blind, be blind in tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“All Roots Are Chains (Sonnet 2424)

Proverb goes, change takes time;
I say, time takes change,
for without change there is no time.

And it always begins with you, and
by that, I mean us - you, me, all of us.
I opened my eyes, and couldn't find
a single proper multicultural human
in the world, so I became one -

even the best of egalitarian thinkers
still remain rooted in their geography,
for that's the norm of their time and age,

but for myself, I find such trait
to be nothing more than a tribal vestige,
unbecoming of the time-fabric I'm weaving.

I must be free, absolutely, unequivocally free,
from all forms of chains masquerading as roots -
so I stand free, from every last inherited loyalty,
not as a better human, just an invitation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I must be free, absolutely, unequivocally free, from all forms of chains masquerading as roots - so I stand free, from every last inherited loyalty, not as a better human, just an invitation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Access to essentials must be the first commandment of every single field and discipline, when it's the last instead, and an expendable one at that, every single field and discipline, along with its proud practitioners and proponents, are war criminals.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Cosmos is my kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When a 10 ounce heart drops on a racist in its complete wholeness, the very idea of race is blown out of existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The I-less Continuum (Sonnet 2456)

When a 3 pound brain drops on
a bigot in its complete vastness,
bigotry don't just blush,
it's blasted to ashes.

When a 10 ounce heart drops on
a racist in its complete wholeness,
the very idea of race
is blown out of existence.

Neurons are the prophets of reality,
consciousness is the scripture.
I don't see the turn of the universe,
I cause the universe to turn.

Beyond culture, religion and nation,
there's my homeland called human -
beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual,
existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There’s not one religion but two, one is commercial religion, rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry, and the other is lived religion, rooted in kindness and inclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Generation Understanding (Sonnet 2480)

No matter what the apes want you to believe,

it's not weakness to abandon suspicion,
it's not weakness to discard judgment,
it's not weakness to practice empathy,
it's not weakness to be considerate -

it's not misdemeanor to denounce primitive
practices that our ancestors thought sensible,
it's a sign of wisdom, not stupidity, to admit
ignorance, rather than succumb to supernatural.

My favorite answer of all is, 'I don't know' -
in the absence of rigorous investigation
that's the answer I fall back on the most;

then there are times when logic is immaterial,
there I avoid all mention of knowledge, and
take the humane course, despite reason or ritual.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“No matter what the apes want you to believe, it's not weakness to abandon suspicion, it's not weakness to discard judgment, it's not weakness to practice empathy, it's not weakness to be considerate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“What good is ape tradition and validation, when time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“One culture doesn't fit all,
one morality doesn't fit all,
one faith doesn't fit all,
one reason doesn't fit all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I have no allegiance to any religious institution, or to any academic institution, I don't even have allegiance to the truth, truth can go to hell for all I care - I only care about integration - absolute, indivisible, unbending, unflinching spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“By The Time I'm Finished (Sonnet 2601)

Belief matters less
where people matter more.
Time matters less
when life matters more.

Scientific truth changes with data,
spiritual truth changes with era,
cultural truth changes with civilization,
but to unite, empathize, love and lift
across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.

By the time I'm finished with science,
science would be more service centered
than religion.

By the time I'm finished with religion,
religion would be more allergic
to superstition and prejudice than science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Scientific truth changes with data, spiritual truth changes with era, cultural truth changes with civilization, but to unite, empathize, love and lift across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“To unite, empathize, love and lift across fractures, is the one absolute virtue.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Either earth belongs to all, or we are all illegal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am born of dust, and as I'm nearing to be dust again, my tolerance of intolerance has become apocalyptic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Don't Be The Salt (Sonnet)

Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal -

it has nothing to do with god,
it has nothing to do with truth -
every person carries a secret wound,
religion we run to is the bandage that fits.

I am born of dust, and as I'm nearing to be dust again,
my tolerance of intolerance has become apocalyptic.
We are all wounded, looking for a bandaid -
some act like salt, I choose to be ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm not here to prove myself to a bunch of apes, I exist, period - how you react to my vastness, proves the human or the ape that you are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“A great cook is not someone who always gets it right but someone who can turn a mistake into something exceptional.”
― Bald Chef Nick, Deliciously Dyslexic: The easy to read cookbook

“Divided we are space-racing monkeys, integrated we are Upright Humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Empathy originated in Mother Africa, naturalism originated in Latin America, divine love originated in Arabia, equilibrium originated in China, integration originated in India. Pluralism is not a polite idealism, pluralism is civilizational emergency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“People don't qualify as people when they deny humanity to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Your offspring will be studying my canon as their native heritage – my human-centric divinity will be their divinity, my life-centric culture will be their culture, my service-centric science will be their science, my earth-centric existence will be their existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock