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

“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

“Own your biases, don't be owned by them.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The greatest pleasure is in bearing pain for others.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Mind is mightier than muscle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Freedom, freedom and freedom, that should be the mantra for the civilized, conscientious and progressive humanity - freedom from bigotry, freedom from prejudices and hatred - freedom from intellectual blindness as well as orthodox stupidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“When the individual consciousness and social consciousness become one, the slightest trace of human act can trigger a tsunami of change in the world. When the illusory separation between the self and the society is demolished by the ambition-less will of the self, all that there remains is peace, piety and progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Service is the only path to greatness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Stagnant water gets polluted over time, and so does stagnant mind, but if the mind is in flow, all pollutants within and without, get washed away with its ever-evolving and rejuvenating torrents, quite like water.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Mind is the altar, mind is the temple, mind is the lord and mind is the gospel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Go down the dusty and agonizing road of self-annihilation if necessary, so that you can save yourself as well as humanity from our primitive past.”
― 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