“Helper is Herald (The Sonnet)
Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.
All labels are futile,
If there's no substance underneath.
Focus on substance as a whole being,
Leave the labeling to the elite.
The helper is the herald,
the lifter is the light.
In a world with double vision,
selflessness is the only sight.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Lift your eyes to the God of victory. He is able to move you from the battlefield to a place of celebration.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Nothing Yet Everything (The Sonnet)
I am no sufi, yet,
Every sufi is my reflection.
I am no advaitin, yet,
Every advaitin is my reflection.
I am no mystic, yet,
Every mystic is my reflection.
I am no buddha, yet,
Every buddha is my reflection.
I am no humanist, yet,
Every humanist is my reflection.
I am no humanitarian, yet,
Every humanitarian is my reflection.
I am nothing, that's why I am everything.
Or perhaps, I'm everything, that's why I'm nothing!”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Radioactive Mind (The Sonnet)
In front of the radioactivity of mind,
Radioactivity of matter turns dim.
In front of the joules of a just heart,
A billion ohms of hate become nil.
Hate is the question,
Heart is the answer.
Hate is the sickness,
Heart is the cure.
Prejudice is the ailment,
Piety is the cure.
What is piety you ask!
Nothing but kindness more pure.
Kindness is divinity, kindness is sanity.
Wasting it to codify life is sheer stupidity.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Science, Religion & Superstition (The Sonnet)
Religion is all evil, is the superstition,
That half-cocked rationalists suffer from.
Science is devil's work, is the superstition,
That bookish religionists suffer from.
Take the I and cross it out,
Lo, you have a living Christ!
Take the self and set it on fire,
Lo, you have a timeless light!
Yes, I want to convert the world,
I want to convert all cussing into hugging.
Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them,
I want to convert mindless mocking into mending.
I am no preacher, I am no scholar, I am no thinker.
But, without some basic humanity, we shall all wither.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“If you can look at a phenomenon of nature, and be struck by awe without being struck by superstition, know that you have finally grown up.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Physical truth is not always conducive to psychological truth. E=MC2 is a great physical truth, which may light up your house, but it cannot light up your heart. If it could, the west would be the heartiest hemisphere on earth. Your heart will light up, when you realize the psychological truth that joy of another is the joy of one.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“None of us is guide,
None of us is teacher.
We are all lost, we are all light,
We are but each other's keeper.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Humanism is something entirely different. It is a theme or rather a set of
themes that have reappeared on several occasions over time in European
societies; these themes always tied to value judgments have obviously varied
greatly in their content as well as in the values they have preserved.
Furthermore they have served as a critical principle of differentiation. In the
seventeenth century there was a humanism that presented itself as a critique of
Christianity or of religion in general; there was a Christian humanism opposed
to an ascetic and much more theocentric humanism. In the nineteenth century
there was a suspicious humanism hostile and critical toward science and
another that to the contrary placed its hope in that same science. Marxism has
been a humanism; so have existentialism and personalism; there was a time
when people supported the humanistic values represented by National
Socialism and when the Stalinists themselves said they were humanists.
From this we must not conclude that everything that has ever been linked with
humanism is to be rejected but that the humanistic thematic is in itself too
supple too diverse too inconsistent to serve as an axis for reflection. And it is a
fact that at least since the seventeenth century what is called humanism has
always been obliged to lean on certain conceptions of man borrowed from
religion science or politics. Humanism serves to color and to justify the
conceptions of man to which it is after all obliged to take recourse.”
Source: The Foucault Reader
“Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because ‘friends react on one another’ and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one’s preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
Source: Reflections on Gandhi