Coexistence Quotes

“Friends we may not be, enemies we shall not become,
Bound by understanding, conflicts we will overcome.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“If with all your power
you kissed the angel of love,
what then might happen?”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Opposites reconcile by affirming their separate equally-valid expressions of a single essence. Recognizing this [becomes] one way to claim peace in an otherwise tumultuous world.”
― Aberjhani, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah

“Your tears are muscles,
hinged on wings lunar and solar.
Your touch: life and death.
(from poem Angel of Mercy)”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Leadership has never been an exact science. But it has always found itself particularly challenged when tasked with elevating one segment of a society onto a level more politically, socially, and economically equitable with another.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“There is no coexistence, but only existence, for coexistence implies a life of separation. What the world needs is a wholesome life, one that exists in the nameless land of heartnation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Co-existing is like interacting and living with beings of the other dimension.”
― Teertha Unni

“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

“For animals culture and country may come first, as humans the whole world must be our priority.”
― 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

“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

“Civilization is born when all our sentience converge. Puny minds make puny-verse, uni-minds make universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“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

“The opposite of intolerance is not toleration, the opposite of intolerance is assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“It's okay if our beliefs differ -
so long as the result is love,
it's okay if the routes differ.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“United we are alive,
Divided we are dead.
Integrated we're lovers,
Divided we are duffers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I didn't seem threatened, as they were, by the idea that the rest of the world was catching up to us.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“First Language (The Sonnet)

English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.

Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.

Analog is my second passion,
My first passion is dialogue.
Law is my second task, my first,
Is taking beings out of the bog.

All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.
All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Don't sync your heartbeats
to the drumbeats of war.
Strum the chords of coexistence
on the frets of fervor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Strum on heartstrings the song of synergy,
Be the headstrong harbinger of harmony.
Coexistence is existence when human is whole,
Wake up to duty, geopolitics will be history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Life is love, love is life -
all other existence is null and void.
World is love, love is the world -
all other paradigm is poison voyage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“As we forge forward in the pursuit of progress, let us not forget the shared rights of all beings to inhabit this Earth, tread the paths of compassion and empathy, seeking ways to coexist harmoniously, embracing the notion that every creature, from the mightiest to the humblest, deserves their place under the sun.”
― Rove Monteux, Roadkill Horrors

“I've found that most people don't have a mental filing drawer labeled Times I Was Wrong. Its mislabeled Times I Was Lonely or Times So-And-So Was Angry.”
― Kathryn Schulz , [Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] [By: Schulz, Kathryn] [January, 2011]

“Our decision: From now on, we would share the world with humans.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human

“The only tragedy is not being able to conceive of ourselves as tragic. I've always clearly seen that I coexist with the world. I've never clearly felt that I needed to coexist with it. That's why I've never been normal.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“When we come together to listen and learn from each other, there is hope. This is where human dignity begins, where peace begins, where dignity begins: in a small gesture of respect, in listening.”––Elie Wiesel”
― Ariel Burger, Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom

“When you begin to learn how to not hunt birds, nor trample on plants, then you are ready to save humanity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“True balance is not found in extremes, but in the harmony of opposites. Light and darkness, strength and fragility—they exist not to overpower each other but to complete the whole. To stray too far in either direction is to lose sight of the path.”
― Alaric Stoneforge, The Unyielding Ember: Flames of the Dawnbreaker