“To bigots and divisionists their culture is the world. To me the world is my culture.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Be The Love Commandment (A Sonnet)
Instead of worrying about a fictitious judgment day,
Make your actual today a real nonjudgment day.
Instead of hoping for a fictitious heaven after death,
Make this world that you have an abode without hate.
Plenty of heart force we have wasted on fiction,
Plenty of attention we have placed on insecurity.
Now it's time to redirect our time and priorities,
It is time to be the valiant vanguards of reality.
I ain’t talkin’ about being chained to the reality,
Nor about keeping things the way they are for so long.
All I'm asking is, we pay attention to the now and here,
Instead of obsessing over tales from days long gone.
So, stand up to the tyrants as apocalypse incarnate.
Reach out to the needy as a living love commandment.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“What’s It All About (The Sonnet)
What is this world all about!
What is this society all about!
What is this life all about!
What is our existence all about!
What are the roads all about!
What are the skyscrapers all about!
What are the bridges all about!
What are our feet all about!
What is science all about!
What is faith all about!
What is technology all about!
What is politics all about!
'Tis all about people and their welfare.
All notions to the contrary cause only despair.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“True Naskareans of earth are them alone who ain't no Naskarean but plain human.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Is it possible to be a person of integrity while maintaining a radical bifurcation between one's outer and inner lives? And if that inner life should value, above all, rationality, free inquiry, and the right of us all to flourish to our fullest, then how can you keep silent as to the conclusions to which your rational free inquiry has brought you? How can you deny for yourself the right to flourish in the company of like-minded people who will not disapprove of you for subjecting your beliefs and actions to the standards of rational accountability? If you believe in the integrity of your conclusions then you must show them to the world, making the case for them not only by the arguments you hash out in the privacy of your own mind but by the life that you publicly lead.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Do you think science matters more than dogma? Do you think this life is all we're going to get, so we need to make the most of it? Do you find that helping other humans in the here and now gives you well-being? Do you think common sense is more important than rules in ancient texts? Do you trust your experience and knowledge over those who claim a personal connection to their god? Then, whether you recognized it before or not, you're probably a humanist!”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Humanism is the not so radical idea that you can be good without a god. It's the discovery that you not only don't need outdated texts or god experts to make good choices, but that those are frequently poor resources for decision making. Humanists affirm our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity. We ground that pursuit not in theism or supernatural beliefs, but in the best of modern knowledge determined from trial and error and the scientific process.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“In the first act, humano-divine relationships are founded on reciprocal similarity. God is regarded as having created humankind in the divine image and likeness. 20 Philosophically, of course, it will be said instead that humankind, from time immemorial, has represented God in human image. One of the basic traits of the God of the religions is personality.”
Source: The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)
“For them (birds), happiness starts with the absence of unhappiness - just as it does for us.”
“Love is the seed, love is the tree, love is the shade.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier