Sage Sayings Quotes

“No peace can be lasting unless the humans become wise enough to need no borders, which can happen only if you all stop feeling threatened by your own kind and start fostering a sense of genuine trust for each other. I would rather be killed by you, the human, my own kind, than be killed by a disease. There is bliss in being killed by your own people. Once you recognize this simple revelation in your heart, then only can there be peace in the world. This doesn't mean that you are giving permission to your fellow human to kill you for no reason, rather you are showing in practice the absurd extent of your trust upon that person. Then it becomes extremely hard for the other person to see you as an enemy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Agony can bring greatness out of a person, but in the process, the person has to walk barefoot on red-hot coal while bleeding from all over the being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Sometimes all the philosophies that you have read, including that of mine, will not come to any use, what will though, is your own observation.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I am no religious preacher, or a spiritual teacher, nor am I an intellectual philosopher or a divine incarnation - I am you in the service of you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Saint or sage or the awakened being is not the one free from all desires and expectations, but the one who has an active conscience to see the real implications of those desires and expectations and then act accordingly for the best possible outcome for the self as well as the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“Someone said to me the other day 'you should have some fun in life, instead of just working all the time'. I replied to the person 'you may have the luxury to have fun, but I can't even dream of having fun while my own humanity is tormented with countless forms of misery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“Flow like the river - shine like the sun - if you want to live - then live without the run.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sometimes war may become the only resort available, but never try to justify it, by saying that it's the right thing to do, because war is never the right thing to do, no matter how right you feel. When you fire that first shot, you have no idea how many lives are going to be destroyed, no matter how right you feel. Once you fire that first shot you have no idea how many children will be orphaned. Once you fire that first shot you have no idea how many homes will be burnt to ashes. So why not make an effort to break that savage habit of retaliation, and sit down together in order to understand each other beyond the petty little differences born of instinctual tribalism!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Imagine me on my knees in front of you – bowing before your feet – and I say - I beg you, break the cycle now.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Light is not light that seeks light - goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage - virtue is not virtue that seeks reward.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Trust rarely begins from both sides simultaneously - one side must take the first step for the other to follow. You must show trust to see trust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Agony of the braveheart delivers humanity the gift of peace and progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Without truth, time is merely the kingdom of the animals. Time brings progress and humanitarian glory, only if truth walks the nerves of our mind, as we walk the alleys of space - in that walk we relinquish the space between the self and the other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“With liberation comes strength, with liberation comes clarity, with liberation comes insight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Real enlightenment is not at all free from all sorts of ignorance, but it is at all times aware of that ignorance as well as all the shortcomings of the self, whereas in the so-called enlightenment fueled by mysticism, the self gets consumed by the illusion of knowledge, which is worse than ignorance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Sometimes to see the truth, you must turn blind to the obvious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“It's not enough to exist - animals exist, but it's the humans who have the brain capacity to live. So, live my friend, without effort, without worry, without ambition, without pride- live with dignity,contentment and the idea that gives your life value. If you truly genuinely want to do something, you just do it - just like the river flows without having any ambition to flow - the sun doesn't have an ambition to shine - it is in the ambition-less, pride-less, non-judgmental, non-conceptual, non-conflicting flow of action, that lies the force of life. So, flow like the river - shine like the sun - if you want to live - then live without the run.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Take it slow and be the flow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Outside you actions don’t exist, outside you history doesn’t exist, outside you future doesn’t exist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Empirically speaking, there is no such thing as history, destiny and even future for that matter, what there really is, is the “now”. And this very “now” – this very moment is the only thing which you have in your hands – in fact, it is the only time that actually exists – the “now”. So, be aware of that “now”and you will literally begin to see all moments like a true seer, without all the mystical nonsense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Simply awareness will make you see, what has been, what will be and what could be.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“Changing the family given name to a Sanskrit based name, doesn't make a person either free or holy - by doing so, one only exchanges one prison for another.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“To me - the scientist, the preacher, the entrepreneur, the janitor, the showgirl, the sex worker and all others are one and the same human spirit in which I see the image of my own self.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“I gave up living as a person, so that you can have a humane and conscientious world to live in - and in return I ask nothing from you, except that you live as a whole human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Some people make cars, some rockets - I make Gods.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“It's extremely easy and convenient to worship a giant, but when a giant is born in your own home, it becomes an inconvenience.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I am not here to peddle you anything – I am not here to convert you either – I am here on earth to be an example of liberation – and if that example appeals to your civilized and conscientious psyche, then embrace it without judging other people’s methods or the paths they walk on.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“I am in misery, I am in pain, but I am not in conflict.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Naskar the person died long ago, now what lives in front of you, and indeed within you, is Naskar the idea - the idea of one humanity - the idea of a harmonious humanity - a humanity that places the benefit of the neighbor above the benefit of the self - a humanity that places the significance of shared joy above the joy of the individual - a humanity that lives not in a chaotic planet, but in a truly intertwined conscientious society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Darkness cannot be expelled with force, it can only be overwhelmed with light - ignorance and delusions cannot be expelled with force, they can only be overwhelmed with knowledge. And this process of overwhelming ignorance and delusions with knowledge is the practical enlightenment of a thinking society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity