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“There are three kinds of people in the world - Those who make the world, those who mock the makers, and those who sleep through all the making and mocking. Or better yet, there are humans then there are animals - Humans who make the world, humans who help the makers, and animals are those who keep mocking and sleeping.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Praying to be saved from danger,
Ain't no spineless coward I.
Let all the dangers hail my way,
Each crisis is like a trip to Hawaii.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Ain't No Coward (Sonnet 1137)
Praying to be saved from danger,
Ain't no spineless coward I.
Let all the dangers hail my way,
Each crisis is like a trip to Hawaii.
Won't listen to no forbiddance,
Won't heed no foreboding.
None can sense the extent of my senses,
Night and day are my own making.
When all are eager for the sun to rise,
I grab the night and conjure up dawn.
Leave no corner of mindland unharvested,
Struggle isn't over till gloom turns to morn.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Give me some sunshine,
Give me some rain!
Why the hell am I asking you,
When I'm the steward of my own reign!”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Vaishusmriti (The Sonnet)
Those few afternoon trips back from uni,
With her head on my shoulder, were utopia.
My stomach was bursting with butterflies,
But my lips could barely utter a word.
My shirt got seeped with her intoxicating scent,
But her heart was posted to another man's mail.
Yet how can you begrudge someone you once loved!
It's okay to lose your heart to the wrong people.
Hadn't she rejected me, I'd have ended up
yet another nobody in the sea of engineers.
When life shatters you to a million pieces,
Get up and give back life some middle finger.
If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Truth and facts are not the same, because facts alone don't make the truth. Truth requires insight, truth requires wisdom. Facts can contribute to that insight and wisdom, but access to facts doesn't necessarily entail access to wisdom. The best example I can think of is that of love. Love is truth, whereas lust is fact. Lust may be a part of love, but it's not the whole of love. In fact, in many cases lust is not even part of the picture. The same goes for truth and facts. Fact is a state of matter, truth is a state of mind. Matter makes the mind - sure - but to fathom the matter behind mind in its fullest intricacies will take us millennia more.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Fact is a state of matter, truth is a state of mind.”
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“Instant popularity vanishes just as instantly.”
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“How do you think the west made
so much advancement in so little time?
It's all by pillaging the innocent natives,
who welcomed them with nothing but smile.”
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“Poverty is a capitalist invention,
Third world obscurity is colonial construct.
History of the west is history of abuse,
World hunger is a western by-product.”
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“Brain's death is death of the body,
Heart's death is death of the being.
Kindness keeps the being alive
long after the heart stops beating.”
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“Literature of any kind can teach us a lot, but any text refuting scrutiny makes the skull a vacant lot.”
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“Shedding all fears both ragged and posh, let's go play in the courtyard of the cosmos!”
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“Be love and be light -
watch the fall of worldly fright.
Be free and be responsible -
watch the society take its flight.”
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“Lines of hands don't make destiny, labor of hands does.”
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“Don't be fooled by my attire,
You think of me a fool because
I want you to think of me a fool.
I am a behaviorist, and by behaving idiot
I study who's true, who's a tool.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I have zero tolerance for intolerance - If you want me to acknowledge you as a human being, first learn to behave like a human being.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Ben seni rahat etmeye gelmedim,
Ben seni berbat etmeye geldim.
I have come to destroy every
last trace of the prehistoric you,
so that a new human can usher
into a new world - a kind world,
a curious world, a human world.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Discipline of the Sikh,
Enthusiasm of the Christian,
Brotherhood of the Muslim,
Nonviolence of the Jain,
Clarity of the Buddhist,
Groundedness of the Hindu,
Rationality of the Atheist,
Resilience of the Jew -
Take the good from everyone,
Mind expands through assimilation.
Past errors mustn't continue as tradition,
Oneness is divinity, division is damnation.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I don’t write for creatures of the gutter, I write for those craving for open skies.”
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“Only you can remove your anxiety,
Only you can bring you clarity.
What the hell are you doing
at the feet of fraudsters!
Go out and discover your own reality.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Intellect is not the answer,
Belief is not the answer.
These only amplify what we really are,
Good becomes great, jerk becomes jerker.”
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“Many fervor, many faiths,
thus the world is made.
World without secularism
is world of the dead.”
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“Together we care, together we dare -
Kindness turns air into breath,
Cruelty turns breath back into air.”
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“We don't need to lean left or right, we just need to lean loveside as one community.”
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“Militant atheists are no more humanist, than religious fundamentalists are religious.”
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“Everybody has imaginary friends,
My imaginary friend is my late teacher,
And I find it therapeutic to talk to him,
Whenever I hit rock bottom during disaster.
Quite like air, water and food,
It's something we humans need to survive.
Last thing this world needs is more war
to prove whose imaginary friend
bears the greatest of might.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Labels are like training wheels, at some point you gotta let them go.”
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“Sonnet 1142
Naskar the scientist says,
Science that lifts no human condition,
is not science but superstition.
Naskar the monk says,
Inclusion is illumination,
discrimination is delusion.
Naskar the philosopher says,
Better lose truth, than lose humanity -
Better lose truth, than lose love.
Naskar the sufi says,
Sense yourself till
you sense nothing but love.
Naskar the humanist says,
I don't care about your belief or disbelief,
all I care about is your behavior with others.
Naskar the humanitarian says,
each human must earn their admission
into the human race with humane actions.
The spirit of love speaks of love,
no matter the faith and field.
Hate is but a mark of narrowness -
When you expand heart and soul,
whole world becomes kin and kith.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Conscience is the cement
that settles character in place.
Character is the cement
that settles civilization in place.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Being kind costs us nothing - not being kind will cost us everything.”
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“World doesn't change because you mean well, world changes when you behave well.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I may share pictures, meeting people,
But I never share pictures, helping people.
Kindness is reward in itself to be savored,
Kindness with selfie is shallowness despicable.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“One act of silent kindness is far greater than reading all the books by Naskar.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Be a living electronic circuit. Practice resistance where needed, like a resistor. Preserve energy where needed, like a capacitor. Direct energy where needed, like a diode. And above all, be driven by a purpose, like an IC.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“You wanna get drunk? Get drunk with an idea, not with alcohol. Get drunk with alcohol, you ruin your life. Get drunk with an idea, you enhance your life.”
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“Without purpose peace is hell.”
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“Figure out how you wanna die, life will take care of itself.”
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“Arise, O Atlas (Sonnet 1100)
Vakna, Stå upp, o Modige Atlas!
Ta världen på din axel,
Förkasta allt som är ojust.
Awake, Arise, O Atlas Supreme,
Take the world on your shoulder.
Denounce all roots of hate and hurt,
Wielding your humanitarian viking thunder.
I don't write for creatures of gutter,
I write for those craving for open skies.
If you can give up your golden fancies,
I'll give you a world beyond the lies.
Despierta, levántate, oh loco amante!
El mundo entero está a tu cuidado.
Give up your aphrodisiac of wild ancestry,
Somos humanos cuando nos descubrimos en cada humano.”
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“I speak the tongues of earth,
I sing the songs of earth.
Forever I find myself,
In many fervors of earth.
Ain't got no single nation,
Ain't got no single culture.
Human am I, I belong to humans,
Come hell or come high water!”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Ain't got no single nation,
Ain't got no single culture.
Human am I, I belong to humans,
Come hell or come high water!”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“United we are alive,
Divided we are dead.
Integrated we're lovers,
Divided we are duffers.”
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“Simplicity is my fashion,
Moderation is my trend.”
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“Simplicity is my fashion,
Moderation is my trend.
There are creases on my shirt,
Because my heart is without bent.”
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“Ignorance is bliss,
Knowledge is pain.
To know is to grow,
To grow is inconvenient.”
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“Pursue validation, they'll keep rejecting. Pursue excellence, validation comes chasing.”
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“Moderation is the key to sustainable health.”
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“I am the person
beyond the paradigm,
I am but a reflection
of the best of humankind.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Give up your chase of goldmine,
Labor in the caverns of soulmine.
You shall be rich where it really counts,
Beyond the dreams of animalkind.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo