“If the trees refused to endure storms,
no human habitat could flourish anywhere.
If the one human refuses to take pains,
whole humanity will collapse and disappear.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Unself your soul,
Unchain your mind.
Await no mythic might,
Unleash your thundertide!”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Stars that burn for others, wither in body, but live in light.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Seclusion Won’t Do (The Sonnet)
Each of you must turn into a sufi saint,
Each of you must turn into a latin lover.
Each of you must turn into a shaolin monk,
Each of you must turn into a bengal tiger.
It won't do to seclude yourself in a monastery,
It won't do to seclude yourself behind a desk.
The monk must come down to the streets of life,
The scholar must till the soil with their sweat.
Service of humanity is the fulfillment of divinity,
Service of humanity is the right use of intellect.
Occasional seclusion is good, to charge up the mind,
But life-long seclusion from society is sheer waste.
Enlightenment that doesn't eliminate separation
is no enlightenment.
Intelligence that doesn't elevate the collective
is no intelligence.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Let the people find a shelter in you, and you shall attain an eternal shelter in them.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“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
“Nowadays, As Goes The Social Worker, So Goes The People’s Life.”
“As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me, The old world of houses, rooms, trees and streets shimmers, wavers and tears away, revealing another universe as startling as fire. We are shut off from the fullness of things. Words hide the world. They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception. But the unbound world, the world behind the world – how fluid it is, how lovely and dangerous. At rare moments of clarity, I succeed in breaking through. Then I see. I see a place where nothing is known, because nothing is shaped in advance by words. There, nothing is hidden from me. There, every object presents itself entirely, with all its being. It's as if, looking at a house, you were able to see all four sides and both roof slopes. But then, there's no “house,” no “object,” no form that stops at a boundary, only a stream of manifold, precise, and nameless sensations, shifting into one another, pullulating, a fullness, a flow. Stripped of words, untamed, the universe pours in on me from every direction. I become what I see. I am earth, I am air. I am all. My eyes are suns. My hair streams among the galaxies.”
Source: Dangerous Laughter
“Nowadays, As Goes The Social Worker, So Goes The People’s Lives.”
“The world seems like a wonderful place,
When you don't know what's going on in it.
Witnessing the darkness yet choosing to smile,
That's what defines the illuminating spirit.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence