Lives to Serve Before I Sleep Quotes

“When you gain real insight into the human universe, you lose the capacity to blame.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“A huge portion of the human society runs on autopilot, under the authority of biases. That's why, the world is infested with so many conflicts. Once the humans get hold of their biases instead of letting their biases get hold of them, all conflicts would vanish into thin air.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Own your biases, don't be owned by them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Be the person who moves hearts - be the person who heals wounds - be the person who makes darkness disappear - be the person who makes colors reappear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“United we are humans, divided we are apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“You have the power to turn this tearful world into a cheerful one. The question is, will you?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“If you want to be an extremist, be extreme in your acts of kindness - if you want to be a fundamentalist, practice the fundamental principle of acceptance in every walk of your life - if you want to be an intellectual, use your intellect to improve human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Practicing a thousand yoga postures, doesn't make a person spiritual, nor does uttering "aum" or "hallelujah" a thousand times - what makes a person spiritual, is plain ordinary everyday act of kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“I care not about science, I care not about spirituality, all I care about is service of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“All stains of the society are born in the mind, and so is the detergent to clean them off.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“HUMAN means Harmony - HUMAN means Unity - HUMAN means Magnanimity - HUMAN means Acceptance – HUMAN means Nobility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“What is destiny? It's simply the path of tomorrow. What is tomorrow? It's simply the projection of today. And your action today is the only force that forges the destiny of not just your own, but indeed of your society, for your life is not separate from your society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“In the domain of primitive spirituality, that is, supernatural spirituality, the mind loses all its sanity in the name of non-conformity and takes nonsense to be a form of higher sense and supernatural insanity and fallacy to be spiritual sanity and truth. In an attempt to break free from the chains of religious orthodoxy as well as radical rationalism, these mysticism-obsessed beings, who pompously prefer to call themselves "lightworkers", "yogis", “mystics” and so on, end up bound in yet another form of orthodoxy or extremism, replete with the primal psychological germs of supernaturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“The world needs a janitor, to clean its stains of barbarianism - the world needs a mechanic, to fix its broken conscience in the fog of socio-cultural conditioning - the world needs a plumber, to fix its internal plumbing that carries courage, compassion and acceptance. And mark you, it doesn't matter whatsoever, of what color your collar is, what matters above everything else, is that - are you responsible, and then, are you committed and courageous enough to act on that responsibility!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Lives to Serve Before I Sleep (The Poem)

Lives to serve before I sleep,
'cause service is my salvation;
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
'cause time is wailing for absolution;
Bridges to build before I sleep,
'cause too many walls are raised already;
Peoples to unite before I sleep,
'cause civilization is trembling and walking unsteady.

Shackles to shatter before I sleep,
'cause corruption festers in the stagnant norm;
Labels to erase before I sleep,
'cause they've only confused our global dorm;
Sects to humanize before I sleep,
'cause segregation has weakened the human bond;
Blades to burn before I sleep,
'cause they've turned the world into a bloody pond.

Tears to wipe before I sleep,
'cause the society is lost in fun;
Homes to heal before I sleep,
'cause ego has wrecked the nests a ton;
Biases to alleviate before I sleep,
'cause bigotry has outweighed compassion;
Purity to pour before I sleep,
'cause all are chasing petty gratification.

Spirits to lift before I sleep,
'cause the minds are running dry;
Gods to build before I sleep,
'cause orthodoxy makes humanity cry;
Wars to end before I sleep,
'cause no life is expendable and puny;
Humans to raise before I sleep,
'cause where humans act human there reigns harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“I belong to America, as much as I belong to Russia - I belong to England, as much as I belong to France - I belong to Bulgaria, as much as I belong to Turkey - I belong to India, as much as I belong to Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on. I belong to every nation on this planet. Every country is my country - every culture is my culture - every history is my history. One who sacrifices the self in the service of others, no longer sees any separation whatsoever between the self and the rest of the world - it all becomes one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“I think, therefore I am, but that's not all - what I think and how I think, determine what I am - an animal or a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Even science is art, when it flows pure and free - literature is art, when it flows pure and free - mathematics is art, when it flows pure and free. Any act of the mind that flows pure and free, is art, for freedom is the soul of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Freedom is the soul of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Countless souls are starving to death around the world, yet you keep wasting heaps of money on alcohol, cigarettes and cheap thrills - how can you be so nonchalant, my friend!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Promises that fade in time, are no promises - vows that lose honor in time, are no vows - love that wears off in time, is no love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“The greatest pleasure is in bearing pain for others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“It's ridiculously easy to fall in love, what's hard is to sustain that love for life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“One can't be free, if one knows not that one is in bondage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Drawing a cross on your forehead won't get you into heaven, for real heaven can only manifest around us on earth, if we, the individual humans, start acting as civilized creatures of conscience and character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“When the act of service and the force of life merge into one whole organic furnace of potential - greatness, glory and progress automatically follow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“If you are human, you are spiritual - if you are human, you are religious - if you are human, you are alive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Civilization without responsibility, is no civilization - humanity without responsibility, is no humanity - existence without responsibility, is no existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“In a society of living, breathing and thinking humans, your personal life is not different from your social life - and if it is, then such separation between the personal and the social leads to a fake society, with fake emotions and fake decency - such separation only creates a fake civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Terrorism has no face, but the general mind instinctively attempts to put a face on it based on internally as well as externally predominant biases and knowledge. And the mind does so in the pursuit of self-preservation, because putting a face on an act of terrorism, increases the chances of survival. Once the mind has successfully put a face on terrorism, it tries to avoid intimacy with all the faces that come from similar cultural background. This entire mental process takes place driven by the biological drive for survival. Does this mean that we are biologically bound to act like phobics and racists! And the answer is - we have indeed inherited certain biopsychological drives from our primitive ancestors, but later in our evolutionary history, we also developed the mental capacity to override those primitive traits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep