Integration Quotes

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
― Richard Nixon

“He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”
― Malcolm X

“Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between the visible and the invisible world was just not there for him. It had become natural for Lewis to live ordinary life in a supernatural way.”
― Walter Hooper

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human walks, the soil revives,
forgotten streets all come to life -
with every step, with every beat,
Awake, Arise, and Breathe Complete!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments,
love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“No festival is sin for no one, there is no culture where we do not belong.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I have no genre, I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Pilgrim of the heart,
oneness in our vein -
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You haven't even started living a multicultural life, like a proper human being, and you're obsessing with the multiverse!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The actions aligned with the insight of interbeing reinforce the notion that we are all connected. They integrate, not separate. They are for all of humanity, not just my country. They encourage the emergence of wisdom in all of us, and they are not just for humanity but for all living beings.”
― Juan Pablo Quiñonez, Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage

“Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am for I think not (Sonnet 2674)

Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,

that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -

I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -

which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.

I cannot explain this to your puny
eurocentric analytical psyche,
even to try would be like explaining
neuroscience to a neanderthal -

all I can say is, I am for I am not -
I am for I think not - I don't live, I combust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Some ask for water, some ask for pani - somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi. I cannot explain this (nonduality) to your puny eurocentric analytical psyche, even to try would be like explaining neuroscience to a neanderthal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Integration is not a finish line; it is a returning, again and again, to the wisdom with new depth, compassion, and embodiment.”
― Deva Arani, Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Separately, we grow in height - together, we grow in life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Either burn me, or burn with me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Grounding is not a descent from spirit, but a way to embody it.”
― Deva Arani, Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life

“The area was predominantly black. This shouldn't have surprised me; statistically, Southern cities were far better integrated than Northern ones.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

“Steve, the city's only legal aid attorney, also explained why Petersburg seemed so derelict.

"Desegregation," he said. "The day they integrated the schools was the day a lot of whites called U-Haul." Before the civil rights movement, Petersburg was so segregated that blacks and whites swore to tell the truth in court while placing their hands on separate Bibles. Following turbulent, court-ordered school integration in 1970, whites fled en masse to a suburb called Colonial Heights—or "Colonial Whites," as Steve called it. The suburb was now bigger than Petersburg and attracted almost all the area's new development.

Left behind was a struggling city of 38,000 people, three-quarters of them black and a quarter in poverty. Petersburg's apartheid was so profound that graduates of the first integrated class at the city's main public high school had recently held two twenty-fifth reunions: one for whites, one for blacks. Steve, who had moved to Petersburg straight after law school, planned to flee as soon as he could land a job elsewhere.

"This is the anus of the South," he said. Then, realizing he'd talked for twenty minutes straight, he asked, "What brings you guys to town?”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War