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“The whole world is stuck in a pit. And the only reason it still lives is because there are conscientious soldiers fired up with bravery relentlessly putting their heart and soul to pull it up. But it’s not enough. The world needs more conscientious soldiers. It needs you.”

“Someone said to me the other day, 'you speak of peace because you are afraid to fight'. I smiled and replied, you are absolutely right, I am terrified of fighting, you know why, because if I raise my hands at someone, there'll be no trace of them left. It's ridiculously easily to take life, especially for a biologist with martial arts training, but what makes a human is the capacity to give life.”

“Sonnet of Martial Arts The secret to Martial Arts, Is not style but training. Pick any form that appeals to you, And train regularly without failing. Practice a hundred moves five times, It is of no use whatsoever. But practice one move every day, And it'll be your lifetime protector. But before all that ask yourself, Why do you wanna be a martial artist? Is it to nourish an able mind and body, Or to be yet another fitness narcissist? Trash all your arrogance before training. A martial artist is to be gentle and caring.”

“El negro, el blanco, el marrón, el rojo, el amarillo, el hetero, el homo, el trans, el pobre, el rico, el analfabeto, el analfabeto, el débil, el fuerte, todos son mis hermanos y hermanas. Mi vida es su vida Y hasta el último aliento en mi cuerpo, los estaré sirviendo a todos con todo el poder en mis venas. Y más allá de la muerte, mis ideas te servirán por la eternidad.”

“If you have the burning agony to hold humankind in your hands with care and lift them up, then forget tradition, convention and separation in every form, and throw yourself at the feet of the helpless and hopeless in servitude - at the feet of those who have no actual messiah to resort to.”

“Many people have asked me, where was I born. The answer to this question is not as straight-forward as you may assume. My body was born in a little suburban town on the outskirts of Calcutta, India. But the idea which you know as Naskar had its birth in not one but many places, and that too across the dimension of time. The first foundation stone of that idea was born on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River in India - then one part was born in Chicago - one in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia - one in Cappadocia, Turkey - and one in Pernik, Bulgaria – in that precise order.”

“Toleration was a matter of the previous centuries – through this idea of toleration, thinking humans took the early steps towards a society free from religious sectarianism. The parliament of religions was and still remains a glorious emblem of this endeavor of religious toleration. However, time has changed and so has its needs. The need of this century is acceptance.”