“Close your eyes, turn off facts and fiction; There's an alley leading from my heart to yours.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Donning the cap of curiosity,
Heart firmly rooted in humility,
Wielding the wonder of living morale,
Be the one-sided lover to humanity.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Humanitarian Behaviorism
(The Sonnet)
Give me a drop of love,
I'll shower you with monsoon.
Hit me with loads of hate,
I'll silently disappear soon.
I don't approve of hate in return,
I just walk away from wrong done to me.
Wrong done to another is another matter,
I am the bulldozer, if you are the bully.
I am a biologist and behaviorist after all,
I don't need to do harm to restrain harm.
Weaknesses of the apes are my common knowledge,
Where there is brain, there's no need for brawn.
Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“World is the lock, humanity is key.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Love is the bedrock of us all.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Love is our nationality, not land. Compassion is our religion, not creed. Conscience is our byword, not constitution.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Rooted in love, tempered by reason - I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“My divinity is not rooted in god or scripture, my divinity is rooted in human welfare.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“You don't have to agree with a person completely, to love them.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The grand picture of life lies in the little moments, which the intellectual never finds, nor the superstitious. Grand picture of life dawns upon the life lived grand, It unfolds on its own once you're no more a tribal dunce.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Citizenry is the problem,
Citizenry is the answer.
When citizenry decides on peace,
Albeit reluctant, world leaders wither.
I know no constitution but conscience,
I know no tradition but compassion.
Belonging is my Bible, kindness is my Quran -
The living need no handbook to right and wrong.
Recognition or no recognition,
Human never forgets to be human.
The entire Abhijit Naskar legacy
was created without any recognition.
Then why did I continue you ask,
Because I never wrote for admiration.
I write to provide shelter to all,
And electrify their veins into action.
Whining might suit the spineless,
Bravehearts are ever vigilant in duty.
Once you make people your life's cause,
Nothing can diminish your tenacity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Recognition or no recognition,
Human never forgets to be human.
The entire Abhijit Naskar legacy
was created without any recognition.
Then why did I continue you ask,
Because I never wrote for admiration.
I write to provide shelter to all,
And electrify their veins into action.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“World Gospel (The Sonnet)
So long as there is selfishness,
There is no Christmas.
So long as there is occupation,
There is no Hanukkah.
So long as there is cruelty,
There is no Ramadan.
Till we end militant atheism,
There is no Humanism.
Till you conquer superstition,
There is no Diwali.
So long as there is division,
There is no Vaisakhi.
So long as there is inequality,
There is no Fourth of July.
Till we abolish hate from earth,
At half mast all flags must fly.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Till we end militant atheism, there is no Humanism.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Militant atheism is the antithesis of humanism. Fundamentalism is the antithesis of religion. Nationalism is the antithesis of peace.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“To replace the sky god with a computer god isn't advancement. Real advancement is when nobody suffers from scarcity of sustenance.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“It's not enough to outgrow the divisions in culture, we must also outgrow the divisions in intellect. For example, if you think theology is all about the supernatural, it doesn't mean the entire field of theology is nonsense, it just means, you are studying the wrong kind of theology – you are stuck with an archaic notion of theology. Likewise, if you think science is all about cold facts and figures, then you are studying the wrong kind of science – you are stuck with an archaic notion of science.
Till you develop a common humane ground underneath your feet, all the facts and all the faith won't do you any good.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Love is poetry of the cosmos.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Heart doesn't care about consensus of the brain.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“They ask me, why aren't you still properly known in the mainstream! Well, the Himalayas have been standing for 40 million years, yet it's only in the last century that humans first climbed Everest. They are oblivious of me, because once you get addicted to the transcendental terrains of the Himalayas, all your superficial little molehills will crumble to dust.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“During the first year I tried to write like an intellectual, until I realized, that's not me. So I abandoned the intellectual facade, and became unapologetically human in my writing, and I haven't looked back since.
The tone of 'In Search of Divinity' was so different that I even thought of publishing by a pseudonym. Today I am glad that I did not change my name, for the different new tone was the true voice of mine.
Monkey see, monkey imitate - Human challenge is to find yourself. Once you do, that's when you start to glow, Synthetic sparklers only drag you to descent.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“You are the gospel you need to read.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Letter to My Soldiers
I am only the beginning - the beginning of a new kind of humans - humans who belong to not one culture, but many cultures - humans who speak not one language, but many languages - humans who study scriptures and science with equal enthusiasm, yet pledge allegiance to neither, and know how to use both in the benefit of humanity - humans who aim for neither belief nor disbelief, but warmth and understanding - humans who are more concerned with the real hard problem of inhumanity, than the outdated hard problem of consciousness - humans who sacrifice their life treating the real hard question of hate, rather than the mythical hard question of god. I am only the beginning - the first spark, if you may - the best are yet to come.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“I don't wanna rule nobody,
I don't wanna indoctrinate nobody.
But if your doctrine ruins another's rights,
behind the excuse of imaginary sacred light,
I shall be your worst blasphemous enemy.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Heart is my gospel,
brain is my constitution.
Backbone is my law,
service is my salvation.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Cleverness without conscience is poison.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Cleverness without conscience is a calamity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Person's gospel is but their own conscience.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Naskar doesn't write for the white or colored, for the believer or nonbeliever, for the capitalist or socialist - Naskar only writes for the human - because Naskar is human - a whole human.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“I don't write to force you listen,
I write for those who want to listen.
I don't write to force the way of love,
I write for those already in lovelane.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Tell me you shall stand up to injustice 'n prejudice, and embrace scientific evidence without resistance, and I shall retire tomorrow - in peaceful contentment.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Bravery without kindness leads to brutality.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Naskar the person died a long time ago,
What speaks to you is Naskar the oneness.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“I don't care if my blood courses through your veins, I only care whether my ideas electrify your nerves. I don't give a damn if I leave no bloodly offspring, my sole objective is to leave behind godly bravehearts.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Each heart is a shelter for another,
Each life is sanctuary for another.
Blasting all traditions of divide
into cinders with knowledge-dynamite,
we shall emerge as each other's keeper.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Leave your creed, crown and constitution, when you enter my door.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“You gotta surpass your intellect and belief, if you want to stand as healer and peacemaker.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Rise my Lions,
Be Heroes of Earth!”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“How does the bird come and go
(Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300)
How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!
Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!
With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks,
How come you still cannot put an end to war!
With all your high and mighty technocracy,
How come children still starve and suffer!
I say, put your intellect aside for a change,
First unfold a human heart outside the cage.
Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality,
Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“You'll never fathom the vastness of my mind, with your puny binary eyes of belief and disbelief - capitalism and socialism - democracy and autocracy - logicality and sentimentality.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance!
Nay - acceptance, acceptance, acceptance!
Accept people for who they are,
to change them never you desire!
To see love, you gotta be love incarnate.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Even the blind can see the light of growth,
Yet those with eyes are lost in convenience.
Even the deaf can hear the music of ascension,
Yet those with ears are lost in presumptions.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Burn the heart in its own fire,
drown the heart in its own ocean,
so that the heart may emerge purified
of its own old dirt and delusions.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Problem is not belief or disbelief,
Real problem is hate born of division.
Divisionists will divide no matter the excuse,
Stand up, not to differences, but to differentiation.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“For every existence wasted in unexistence,
Civilization is set back a hundred years.
Object of existence is the unfolding of life,
Not the worship of spiritless structures.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown