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“Where you need to be calm, you burst out in rage, and where you need to be on fire, you remain indifferent.”
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“Sonnet of Breath
The heart holds a breath,
A breath that is indivisible.
Yet we rarely take it in,
For we are raised as vegetable.
We are seeking joy here and there,
Yet there's an ocean of it within us.
It's a joy that comes alive when we care,
At the sight of selfishness it disappears.
Intimacy breeds stability and serenity,
But not the one that thrives on body.
Intimacy that's chaste and unifying,
Manifests only in innocent amity.
Human mind is the source of all ascension.
We are the origin of all civilized creation.”
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“Wake up from indifference and be the final solution.”
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“The Personal Sonnet
If you want to be heard,
You must learn to listen.
If you want to be trusted,
You must keep trustin'.
If you want to grow,
You must first evolve.
If you want to be happy,
Let yourself dissolve.
If you want to smile,
You must learn to give.
If you want to lead,
Help others to live.
Law of the jungle is self-preservation.
Law of society is collective ascension.”
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“I don't know much fancy words. I think simple, I speak simple, I live simple.”
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“I am here to build an army of self-sacrificing humanitarians across space and time, to march unafraid in the course of equality, inclusion and ascension, fortified with accountability, reason and acceptance. So my question to you is - are you that army? If you are, then chisel this in your brain with the indelible ink of determination - your gospel is goodness, your religion is service, your church is society.”
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“You don’t need to be intelligent to be good.”
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“This is Not Us (The Sonnet)
This is not us,
Practicing savages abhorrent.
This is not sapiens,
Intelligent yet filthy indifferent.
Some think we are advanced,
But self-absorption is no advancement.
Some say we have built a free world,
But irresponsible freedom is mere
derangement.
Fancy clothes and accessories make no human,
Nor do those shallow etiquettes.
When we have no kindness for others,
We are just good-looking cannibals.
This cannot be the definition of humanity.
Need of the hour is a life of inclusivity.”
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“The antidote to suffering is life and the seed of life is service.”
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“Destiny is the child of action.”
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“Of all the animals on earth, only the human is born with the capacity to conquer its animal nature.”
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“When it comes to behavior, there is not one, but two types of behavior, one that is instinctual - the kind of behavior that helped our ancestors survive the harshness of the jungle, then there is the behavior of a civilized being - a behavior that is driven by thought and warmth - the behavior of a caring and conscientious human.”
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“Our capacities of humanity may not be as powerful as our innate primitiveness, but with each act of that humanity in our daily walks of life we make those capacities stronger, thus heading towards a future where those capacities of humanity will indeed be more powerful than our primitiveness.”
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“Refuse the fundamental prejudice that we ought to be selfish in order to survive - we are not, for it may suit animals, not modern humans of modern society.”
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“Normal human behavior is community, not self-obsession - normal human behavior is reasoning, not superstition - normal human behavior is warmth, not discrimination - normal human behavior means a plain ordinary decency towards every single human being on earth, not a suspicious condescension.”
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“My ideas won't give you comfort, they won't make you feel good about yourself, they won't make you calm, they will only make you restless, they'll only make you sleepless – for the world, for the society, for humanity.”
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“Great civilization demands great sacrifice.”
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“Woke and cancel culture are both signs of a judgmental culture, not a mentally mature one. A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has not advanced much from the days when the white people used to own slaves. Let me tell you this, if you are kind, if you are compassionate, if you hold no discrimination towards people whatsoever, then you have no reason to worry about whether you are woke enough.”
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“Slavery of senses is the oldest form of slavery, and once we break this slavery, we'll conquer all inhumanity.”
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“Humanity is the highest form of love there is, and love needs no lobby, label or ideology, for love itself is everything that is human about us - we are either living in it, enveloped in its wholeness or we are analyzing it with intellect from outside while dying for a taste of it.”
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“Neither Christ, nor Krishna, nor Superman,
No imagination can rescue humanity.
Each of us is the only helpline,
Human salvation is human responsibility.”
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“Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will.”
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“We suffer because we are selfish.”
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“God is the placebo for the masses, it may solve trivial problems of society, but to treat the big issues, what is required is actual medicine, that is, actual, tangible human intervention.”
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“If you need a god, keep it - 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. It's just something we humans need to survive, quite like water and food! The last thing this world needs is more war to prove whose imaginary friend is better than the rest.”
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“I don't have time for mystical nonsense, I don't have time for intellectual argumentation - real problems of the world keep me busy enough.”
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“The lower the animal, the more selfish it is - higher animals are selfless animals, they are the real humans.”
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“One who is empty of all labels, contains the whole humanity in their chest.”
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“I am not woke, I am just human - I am not socialist, I am just human - I am not wise, I am just human.”
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“The Social Welfare Sonnet
I have no problem with capitalism,
I have problem when it's devoid of society.
I have no problem with innovation,
I have problem when it lacks accountability.
I have no problem with religion,
I have problem when it's run by bigotry.
I have no problem with intellect,
I have problem when it lacks decency.
I have no problem with advancement,
I have problem when it facilitates disparity.
I have no problem with politics,
I have problem when it loses all sanity.
No field is evil entire of its own.
Evil festers when we forget we can’t progress alone.”
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“Human Helpline (The Sonnet)
Neither Christ, nor Krishna, nor Superman,
No imagination can rescue humanity.
Each of us is the only helpline,
Human salvation is human responsibility.
Enough with these prayer and rituals,
Now awake from the sleep of subjugation.
As heroes fraught with reason and conscience,
We must rise to break all submission.
Progress demands a life of revolution,
Self-induced slavery won't do.
The more you seek a savior outside,
The more you turn into boneless goo.
Of all life on earth the human being is peerless.
Only those called sapiens roar for the helpless.”
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“I am not left or right, I am a human. And if someone sounds more aligned with my ideas, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are left, it just means they have a more practical, community-centric and self-correcting grasp of humanity than those who are self-absorbed, self-righteous and self-serving.”
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“I need no throne, I need no kingdom,
Human hearts are my heavenly abode.
I need no badge, I need no scepter,
Reason is my partner, warmth my zip code.”
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“The world doesn't revolve around white, straight, christian males - the sooner you realize this, the sooner you'll see the light of humanity.”
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“Revolution is an act of accountability, violence is an act of selfishness.”
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“The keynote of humanity is expansion.”
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“Seek no reward, seek no applause, just keep on walking in the course of your cause.”
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“Free will is not a question of willpower, it's a question of character.”
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“Thought without action is a car without wheels.”
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“A person of ritual is respected in their own circle, a person of intellect is respected in some circles, a person of love is respected everywhere.”
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“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has not advanced much from the days when white people used to own slaves.”
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“Don't compromise your cause to adjust with society, persist on your cause and the society will correct itself to adjust to you.”
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“Poor is not the one who has no money, poor is the one who has no purpose.”
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“Simplicity is the attire of those with character, sophistication is the attire of the shallow.”
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“Integration is an act of love, not intellect.”
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“Sonnet of Expansion
I expect nothing from the world,
I have no desire to impress society.
I only care for its wellbeing,
Hence I simply do my human duty.
Don't know whether I'm left or right,
Which I don't give a damn about.
World has enough conflicts as it is,
One more duality we can do without.
Expansion is the other name of life,
Without which we are dead and rotten.
If we are not willing to evolve,
Humankind will be soon forgotten.
If today's thought is the same as yesterday,
Despite all achievements we are going astray.”
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“I Give You My Life (The Sonnet)
I give you my life,
Crossing all foul insecurity.
Don't let me dwindle in chains,
Accept this offering of my serenity.
Pour me with all your suffering,
So I can bathe in your smile.
Take this torch of my burning soul,
With it light up your shadowy aisle.
Darkness is a fiendish illusion,
Our each molecule is a fountain of light.
I have nothing to give my friend,
So I give you my life to amplify your might.
We are dead till we live for others.
In helping them our burden disappears.”
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“Society is built by determination, not designation.”
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“Worldliness is shallowness, community is wholeness.”
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“You live the best life when you live for others.”
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