“Over the years, quite a few sonnets never saw the light of day, because every time I write something radical, I always ask myself three questions - first, is it true - second, is it kind - and finally, is it necessary? And often it's at the final question, that I'm reluctantly compelled to press delete on quite a few texts. Yet I don't regret it, in fact, once I do delete that bit of my creation, I feel a huge load off my back - because, my mission is not mindless radicalism, my mission is mindful humanizing of the world. In the absence of heart, even truth becomes mindless - and the mindless never know they're mindless, they feel like it's an act of courage.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Over the years, quite a few sonnets never saw the light of day, because every time I write something radical, I always ask myself three questions - first, is it true - second, is it kind - and finally, is it necessary? And often it's at the final question, that I'm reluctantly compelled to press delete on quite a few texts. Yet I don't regret it, in fact, once I do delete that bit of my creation, I feel a huge load off my back - because, my mission is not mindless radicalism, my mission is mindful humanizing of the world.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I don't follow humanism, humanism follows me.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“No borrowed make-believe,
no quicksand of cowardice -
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“It's not about insisting one's right; it's about maintaining everyone's peace.”
Source: The Single Theory of Everything
“Think like someone who walks in victory. Do not keep worrying. Always remember that God is able to grant you a resounding victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Be a think tank of life, not a septic tank of prejudice.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“I was born of dust, I live as flame, for I choose to be human, not a dead name.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Mind is my mecca.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“The "great" commitment all too easily obscures the "little" one. But without the humility and warmth which you have to develop in your relations to the few with whom you are personally involved, you will never be able to do anything for the many. Without them, you will live in a world of abstractions, where your solipsism, your greed for power, and your death-wish lack the one opponent which is stronger than they—love. Love, which is without an object, the outflowing of a power released by self-surrender, but which would remain a sublime sort of superhuman self-assertion, powerless against the negative forces within you, if it were not tamed by the yoke of human intimacy and warmed by its tenderness. It is better for the health of the soul to make one man good than "to sacrifice oneself for mankind." For a mature man, these are not alternatives, but two aspects of self-realization, which mutually support each other, both being the outcome of one and the same choice.”
Source: Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations