Humanist Poem Quotes

“Sonnet of Norms

It is not patriarchal to hold the door for a lady,
It is not cowardly to leave your seat to the elderly.
But it is barbaric to harass a breastfeeding mother,
And prehistoric to force a woman carry a pregnancy.
There are norms that nourish the societal fabric,
Then there are norms out of touch with age and times.
Beyond both freedom and obedience as a whole being,
You ought to realize where and how to draw the lines.
The problem is that most do not know when to rebel,
They rebel out of boredom to seek adventure not justice.
They commit reckless vandalism in the name of activism,
And feel proud while committing the most heinous deeds.
Norms require careful scrutiny, not headless rebellion.
Hence, quite often rebels become the new face of oppression.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The universal reason is love,
The universal faith is love.
All else is but a faint echo,
Driving us away from love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Give your shoes to those who have none,
Walk in another's shoes whenever you can.
Judgment comes easy to every single animal,
It takes a human to act across assumption.”
― 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

“When culture is code for division,
You gotta be uncultured to find assimilation.
When hagiographies are passed on as heritage,
To be heretic is the first course of action.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Neighborhood Humanitarian (The Sonnet)

They ask me, why do I never run out of ideas!
It is because I never dwell in one culture.
Sometimes I'm North American, sometimes Latino,
Sometimes I'm South Indian, sometimes I am Turk.
When I run low on charge, I listen to Español,
When my sight gets foggy, I watch Cary Grant.
Whenever I feel homesick, I listen to some Telugu,
Whenever my heart bleeds, I run straight to Turkey.
It is sort of a perpetual motion engine,
I empower the cultures, the cultures empower me.
If I am the world's not-so-secret hometown human,
The world is my secret to my infinite electricity.
How, do you think, I became the neighborhood
humanitarian to every single person on earth!
It's because I never glorified one culture over another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“God is all in the mind,
What's wrong with that!
Art is also all in the mind,
So, is art nothing but dirt!

Dividers will always divide,
Haters will always hate.
Apes will find one excuse or another,
To justify their authoritarian trait.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Nuts and bolts do not constitute advancement,
Heart and help constitute true advancement.
Freezers are good for preserving dead meat,
To preserve life we need a warm environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“I don't obey the law,
I write them.
I am the school where reformers,
And public servants learn the rudiments.

I am the university where scientists,
Shrinks 'n philosophers develop sapience.
I am the cosmic record that makes,
Monks and theologians grow sentience.

I am the end of all half-knowledge,
I am the beginning of sight beyond sight.
Whoever finds me in their heart's mirror,
Can never be tamed by apish fright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Using scripture to decode morality,
is like using the abacus to code iOS.
Likewise, using mere reason to decode life,
is like trading in a family for computers.

Computers do have a role in family,
But computers are not family themselves.
Just like scriptures may have a role in life,
But scriptures alone ain't life themselves.

The coming generations will sure be free,
from the stupidity of fundamentalist religiosity.
But they'll be the victim of a new stupidity, i.e.
intellectual fundamentalism or militant logicality.

And trading in one stupidity for another,
only gets us stuck in derangement eternal.
Just know, love has no proof, love is the proof,
And, love has no gospel, love is the gospel.

When love is the center of our field of vision,
All things civilized attain their rightful place.
But when we replace love with either ritual or reason,
We end up with everything except peace and wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Let us just be human,
This year, and every year.
With this hate-defying hope,
I wish you a happy new year.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“The universal reason is love,
The universal faith is love.
All else is but a faint echo,
Driving us away from love.

Taking the echo for the source,
the living heart turns bitter stone.
The sky above knows no east and west,
only the bugs beneath insist on separation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Politicians have thrown people out of government,
Philosophers have thrown humanity out of philosophy.
Scientists have thrown the society out of science,
Preachers have thrown plain goodness out of divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Heal, don't hate - love, don't loath,
Every soul alive is a soul wounded.
Human history is a history of hate,
Isn't it time to dump all that torment!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“What is existence? Selflessness.
What is life? Selflessness.
What is civilization? Selflessness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“One Spirit, Many Vessels (Sonnet 1021)

Christ was not a christian,
Vyasa was not a hindu.
Mohammed was not a muslim,
Abraham was not a jew.
Buddha was not a buddhist,
Confucius was not confucian.
Zoroaster was not zoroastrian,
Naskar is not naskarean.
Nanak was not a sikh,
Mahavir was not a jain.
All that we ever wanted is,
To remind the humans to be human.
Move past the person, and delve into spirit.
There you shall discover, divisions do not exist.”
― 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

“Sonnet 1010

Life is but life's religion,
Life is but life's philosophy.
Books may be a part of life's growth,
But no book is handbook to sensibility.
Take no book as life's handbook,
Believe no being as life's authority.
Neither me, nor any other figure,
Can be north star to your senility.
You are but an electric eel,
You don't need second hand electricity.
Generate your own electric current,
And light up your part of humanity.
It is time to end all lies of authoritarianism,
And take the leap of living faith across divisionism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Still Mi Heart is Earthistani
(Sonnet 1009)

All say, what religion is Naskar!
Naskar says, what religion is the sun!
Some name it alshams, bazıları güneş, algunos sol,
All bask in the same light, varied though the tongue.
The seas are torn apart, continents broken to pieces,
All are still hypnotized by the war-cry of yesterday.
Castrated by ritual the mind has evaporate long enough,
Invigorate the mind now, let the rituals evaporate instead.
Belief and disbelief all are but creeds of kindergarten,
At the university of life, life is but life's religion.
Strike your heart well, strike it well against itself,
Strike it till all the rust and dead skin have fallen off.
Stick your tribal labels of culture all you want on me.
Fact of the matter is, still mi heart is earthistani.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The universal faith is love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Languages come easy to me,
Cultures come easy to me,
Scriptures come easy to me,
Science comes easy to me.
You know why? Because there is no me,
only the mission of undivided humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“The seas are torn apart, continents broken to pieces,
All are still hypnotized by the war-cry of yesterday.
Castrated by ritual the mind has evaporate long enough,
Invigorate the mind now, let the rituals evaporate instead.
Belief and disbelief all are but creeds of kindergarten,
At the university of life, life is but life's religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Between humans, nonsense like color,
creed, orientation do not matter.
It's only the animals that prioritize
divisive tradition over character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Uphold principle, not prejudice.
Uphold reason, not rigidity.
Uphold duty, not derangement.
Uphold correction, not conformity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Qi, Atman, Sentience, Corazon,
All are but varied names of humanity.
Put superstitions aside and you'll find,
Just plain goodness is the supreme epitome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“It's a new world we gotta build -
Founded on love, tempered by reason.
If we must keep the borders,
let's keep them as external necessity,
not as internal prison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Jai Ho (Sonnet 1165)

Jai Ho to all the beings,
Who ain't hypnotized with hate!
Jai Ho to all the beings,
Who ain't living in cavemen days!

Jai Ho to the luchadors,
Who struggle por la igualdad!
Jai Ho to the reformers,
Who value rights over ritual!

Space may be the final frontier,
But heart is the first frontier.
Unless we first conquer the heart,
We'll turn the cosmos into dumpyard.

So I salute, to all explorers of heart!
Jai Ho to the janitors of our cosmic courtyard!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Whole human is healthy human,
all others are terminally ill.
Broken mind leads to broken world,
heal the mind and the world will heal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Mind is the world,
world is the mind.
Exclusion makes cruel,
expansion makes kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Simple, Sonnet

Serenity is born of simplicity,
Insecurity is born of clutter.
Patience empowers perseverance,
Selfishness brings down disaster.

But what's a life without difficulty,
Difficulty delivers durability.
Don't be ashamed of darkness in life,
It's in darkness we shine most brightly.

There's nothing shameful about fear,
It's a problem when the reason is baseless.
Trouble of privilege is trouble of lies,
Reject all privilege and rush to the helpless.

It is human nature to shed tears when in agony,
Taking pain to wipe another's tears is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science