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

“Yabancı Yarim (Sonnet 2701)

Yabancı olarak doğmak ayıp değil, ama
yabancı olarak ölmek en büyük lanettir.
To be born as foreigner is normal,
but to die as foreigner is animal.

To salute the flag is just
as animal as burning a flag,
to obey the scripture blind is just
as savage as burning a scripture.

Delegational democracy is just
as undignified as autocracy,
blind abidance of law is just
as primitive as anarchy.

I look after the world as family,
so the world may look after my family,
when I'm not there - that's the kind of
blind faith that actually makes a difference.

To curse is animal, to console, human.
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

“First I was a monk, then I was a scientist, later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The sum of my life is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature and ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“With Love From A Muslim Poet (Sonnet 2451)

Love your neighbor,
more than you obey the state;
a world left to the whims of politicians,
doesn't take long to be a land of waste.

Nothing's easier than being an ape:
obey the tribal chief,
practice the state-approved religion,
and never love a neighbor
that your monkey king disapproves of -

but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone,
three fundamental forces which invoke
the very ruin of political power,
for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear,
and elevate them to human consciousness,
which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.

I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse
to hate my brother from another mother -
like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature and
ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual, existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Ek Insan, Hoonkar-e Asmaan,
Khalsa in Veins, Noor-e Nadaan;
no togetherness, no tomorrow -
Awake, Arise, O Christly Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“No hero, no charlatan saint,
no prophet out to herd a flock;
unhinged in duty, an unflinching flame,
I'm just a signpost on the cosmic clock.”
― 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

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence - not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Not with intellect, not with faith - to read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To read me you have to think plurally and feel planetary.”
― 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

“You don't need less interests. You need a through-line. When everything you do connects, your range is your advantage.”
― RICHIE NORTON

“Your dictionaries are too small for my voice, your disciplines are too primitive for my existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

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

“Empathy originated in Mother Africa,
naturalism originated in Latin America,
divine love originated in Arabia,
equilibrium originated in China,
integration originated in India.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“World War Naskar (Sonnet 2699-2700)

You've had generations of ape scholars selling the cannibals of Europe as saviors of the world, now watch one Naskar and his Earth Soldiers bring down your entire industrial complex of conversion, cleansing, and holy cockery, without lifting a single weapon!

By the time I'm finished, descendants of even the staunchest supremacist will be engulfed with tolerance madness - by the time I'm finished, each human with the slightest inclusive spark will be mutated into a full-blown multicultural seismic cataclysm.

You spent centuries manufacturing lies as law, prejudice as policy, cleansing as civilizing, now watch one Naskar and his ablaze soldiers establish the first proper Human Civilization, with no one dominant culture, no one supreme religion, no majority, no minority, no privileged, no marginalized - where all streams inhabit the human veins, not as oil and water, but as one lifeblood, enhancing consciousness into completeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You spent centuries manufacturing lies as law, prejudice as policy, cleansing as civilizing, now watch one Naskar and his ablaze soldiers establish the first proper Human Civilization, with no one dominant culture, no one supreme religion, no majority, no minority, no privileged, no marginalized - where all streams inhabit the human veins, not as oil and water, but as one lifeblood, enhancing consciousness into completeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“By the time I'm finished, descendants of even the staunchest supremacist will be engulfed with tolerance madness - by the time I'm finished, each human with the slightest inclusive spark will be mutated into a full-blown multicultural seismic cataclysm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock