The Centurion Sermon Quotes

“Benim adım insan, İnsanlık benim iman.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Hearken to no inherited fear, and walk, la solo ray.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Walk La Solo Ray (Sonnet 1006)

Heart immeasurable is measure supreme,
All other measures are caveman's dilemma.
What measured minds deem as blasphemy,
The immeasurable deem the end of myopia.
You can inherit money, not mind,
You can inherit cash, not character.
When heritage makes mind petrified of mind,
It is not heritage but a humanitarian disaster.
So what, if the measured don't flock behind,
Like they frolic on the beaches of frivolity!
The sun above burns alone giving light to all,
While the hyenas below never run out of company.
Defy all old and new that desecrate the heart away.
Hearken to no inherited fear, and walk, la solo ray.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Gym doesn't make you healthy, any more than the church makes you holy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Yeter ya! Yaşamak istiyorsa, silah milah yok!
İnsan olmak istiyorsa, bomba falan yok!
Asker olmak istiyorsa, silahsız aşık askeri ol!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Beer is no bravery,
Guns ain't no gallantry,
Dump your bazookas in museum,
Smell the roses with some coffee.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Centurion Sermon (Sonnet 1005)

Peace is an act of ceasefire,
Peace is an act of disarmament.
If you don't get this simple fact,
You need lessons on common sense.

Beer is no bravery,
Guns ain't no gallantry,
Dump your bazookas in museum,
Smell the roses with some coffee.

Dump your scripture, pick up a sport,
You'll learn a lot about honor and camaraderie.
Dump your constitution, pick up gardening,
You'll learn plenty about preserving life 'n liberty.

Nationalism is the greatest threat to peace.
Fundamentalism is the greatest threat to harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“From the ground your eyes can only see a block or two. Stand on the terrace, and you could see much of a small town. The higher you go, the more you see - and as your horizon keeps expanding there comes a point when the entire planet unfolds in front of your eyes - no borders, no ideologies, no institutions - just one planet - one world. Divisions exist only in the mind of lower creatures - the higher you rise, the more undivided you become - and the more undivided you become, the more human you become. Look from the gutter, all you see is one culture. Look from the sky, and you'll see a world full of color.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“On multiple occasions I've been called an antichrist, which couldn't be farther from the truth. If anything, I am radically pro-christ. My mission is to flood the world with Christs by the thousands, Buddhas by the hundreds, and Mevlanas by the millions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Till integration becomes life, life will lead to disintegration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“There never was a real thanksgiving where the pilgrims welcomed the native americans to join them for a meal. And no amount of fairytale can change history. But what we can do is, start a tradition of real thanksgiving, by welcoming the persecuted and the discriminated into our hearts and accepting them as our family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“There is no creation without a broken atom, there is no civilization without a broken human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Yes I am broken, I am broken to my last atom. You know why? Because the entire world is on my shoulders - because humankind is my responsibility. You call it God complex, I call it humanity - you call it masochism, I call it humanity - you call it insanity, I call it humanity. Be broken to pieces for the world, and you shall develop the insight into how all the pieces fit together. Destroy all internal order for the uplift of others, and your mind will wake up to the order of wholeness. Remember, there is no creation without a broken atom, there is no civilization without a broken human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Not all terrorists live in the shadows, some own rocket companies, and provide fellow terrorists unhindered, "above-the-law" access to all the exposure they could dream of.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“It's the world that aligns itself to the ways of the sun, not the other way around.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Helping a human is worth a hundred pilgrimages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Sonnet 1008

Helping a human is worth a hundred pilgrimages,
Conquer the heart, you'll conquer the world.
More glorious than trekking a thousand mountains,
Is to trudge the distance from heart to heart.
You don't conquer heart by acting on assumption,
You don't conquer division by acting on ideology.
You don't conquer hate by means of intellectualism,
You don't conquer war by deploying more military.
Peace doesn't happen by conference of ideology,
Peace happens through the confluence of sentience.
Integration doesn't happen by boasting your culture,
But when you overlook yours to learn another's ways.
Bury the dead along with all their artifacts of living.
Better a traitor to the dead than a traitor to the living.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Look through the eyes of the dead,
All reason will strike fear.
Wake up to life and look alive,
All fear will vanish in thin air.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Be the proof of integration,
When prejudice is the tradition.
Devise your own inclusive destiny,
When heritage is rooted in division.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Tolerate no intolerance, because tolerance of intolerance is endorsement of intolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“You cannot outsource life. Life unfolds through you, in you, by you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Büyük Ibadet (Şiir)

Allah varsa yada varmasa,
bana önemli değil.
Ben sadece biliyorum,
insanların ilaçı insan olmali.
Ben insanlarda Tanrı'yı gördüm,
camide veya kitapta değil.

Insanlar benim cennet,
İnsanlara benim minnet.
Birbirimize destek olmak en büyük duadır,
Birbirimize yardım etmek en büyük ibadet.

Benim adım insan,
İnsanlık benim iman.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Mind is only mind when, it is an aid to another mind. Mind that takes pleasure in hate, is not a mind but a baboon's behind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Beyond blood and border begins human life, beyond curves and clothes begins character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“In worshipping the moon in the water of the well people forget about the real moon up in the sky. They take the reflection to be the real thing and the well to be the entire sky. And over time as this habit grows stronger through generations by tradition, the very thought of a moon and a sky outside the well strikes like blasphemy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Peace doesn't happen by conference of ideology, Peace happens through the confluence of sentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“A world that justifies arms race as necessary evil, rightfully deserves all the evil of war it is racked with.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“We shall never witness the dawn of peace till we break our trance of arms.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Let your existence be not an excuse for war, but a cause for peace. You, my friend - you - not some UN peacekeeper, but you - you the uncommon commoner - you the everyday, ordinary civilian of planet earth is the olympian source of all peace and harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Until the mind reflects the world, the world won't reflect peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo