Humanistic Psychology Quotes

“Distance is the root of indifference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Animal we fall, human we fly.
All else save humanity,
is a glorified lie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“The lines between neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, theology and sociology do not exist in my works.
Divisions exist only in the world of amateurs - the deeper you go in mind, the more undivided you become, until you finally realize, it's all one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Heaven is a people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“How does the bird come and go
(Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300)

How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!

With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks,
How come you still cannot put an end to war!
With all your high and mighty technocracy,
How come children still starve and suffer!

I say, put your intellect aside for a change,
First unfold a human heart outside the cage.
Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality,
Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Person is the ailment,
Person is the treatment.
Person alive in act of love,
is ointment to all derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“I am the oath of a world divine,
I am the promise of a planet pious.
My piety is not rooted in dead routine,
But in a humane mix of reason and warmth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Citizenry is the problem,
Citizenry is the answer.
When citizenry decides on peace,
Albeit reluctant, world leaders wither.

I know no constitution but conscience,
I know no tradition but compassion.
Belonging is my Bible, kindness is my Quran -
The living need no handbook to right and wrong.

Recognition or no recognition,
Human never forgets to be human.
The entire Abhijit Naskar legacy
was created without any recognition.

Then why did I continue you ask,
Because I never wrote for admiration.
I write to provide shelter to all,
And electrify their veins into action.

Whining might suit the spineless,
Bravehearts are ever vigilant in duty.
Once you make people your life's cause,
Nothing can diminish your tenacity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The lines between neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, theology and sociology do not exist in my works. Divisions exist only in the world of amateurs - the deeper you go in mind, the more undivided you become, until you finally realize, it's all one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“It's not enough to outgrow the divisions in culture, we must also outgrow the divisions in intellect. For example, if you think theology is all about the supernatural, it doesn't mean the entire field of theology is nonsense, it just means, you are studying the wrong kind of theology – you are stuck with an archaic notion of theology. Likewise, if you think science is all about cold facts and figures, then you are studying the wrong kind of science – you are stuck with an archaic notion of science.

Till you develop a common humane ground underneath your feet, all the facts and all the faith won't do you any good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“What I have written in ten years, will last for over 10,000 years.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Much of my work may go over your head, that's alright - return after a few years. Barring my first ten or so straightforward works, different parts of my vast interdisciplinary oeuvre would make sense at different stages of mental development, both of the individual and the species. Therefore, if something doesn't make sense to you at the moment, don't rush - live your life, and return after some years. But mark you, still many things might not make sense even when you are old and frail - it doesn't mean you have failed me, it means you've done your bit to realize me, now it's time for the next generation to pick up where you've left off. If you figure out everything there is to know about the sun, there'll be nothing left for the future generations to explore. And remember, I am just the portal, cosmos is the writer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am just the portal, cosmos is the writer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Humanhood is monkhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I'm Here to Destroy You
(Sonnet of Naskars)

I'm not here to comfort you,
I'm here to make you restless.
I'm not here to enlighten you,
I'm here to destroy you peaceless.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
The duties of Naskar are too heavy
for self-coddling cowards to carry.

That's why, I'm here to destroy you,
your last ounce of self care and peace.
Doing what you need to sustain yourself is
one thing, but to obsess over it is cowardice.

I got no business with such cowardly insects,
who try to hide pettiness with perfectionism.
Give me ten messy vessels restless for purpose,
I shall give the world 10,000 years of ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Kindness is intention absolute,
Goodness is belief absolute.
Service is wisdom absolute,
Humanity is education absolute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Donning the cap of curiosity,
Heart firmly rooted in humility,
Wielding the wonder of living morale,
Be the one-sided lover to humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Burn my books, and go lift the world!
Let me live in your blood, not in books.
Fetch your nerves and wield your backbone,
You are the cure to the paradigm of crooks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“You know why I write books? Because it is the one thing about the outcome of which I don't give a damn. I don't care if they gather dust, I don't care if they don't sell. In fact, among my hundred plus works, there are a few that have sold barely ten copies. Yet, am I bothered! Nope!

I don't write to sell books, I write because my mind teeters on the edge of psychosis if I spend a single day without writing. Sure, the ultimate mission behind my legacy is the construction of a humane world, but if you get down to the actual morale of the moment - the only recompense I get out of it all, is the felicity of putting my fervor on paper - thus immortalizing them for eons to come. That's how this one life could produce such an impossibly inexhaustible amount of literature in the first place - because I dream my ideas, breathe my ideas, and live my ideas. Better a lesser read genius, than a misread genius. Or to put it plainer still - I am not a writer, I am an anomaly - for better or for worse, I am an anomaly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Someone asked me the other day, do I like to write prose better or poetry? To which I can only say - both are fundamental to my works. In fact, I started out with prose, as you might remember - and my most invigorating ideas came to this world in the form of prose. Along the way, I felt a craving for poetry, so quite on a whim I wrote the first sonnet. Suddenly an entire new horizon opened up to me. Eventually prose and poetry became equally potent carrier of my ideas - they became complimentary to each other - they became supplementary to each other. However, I do admit, as I grow older, I'm getting more and more drawn towards poetry as my primary vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“There's nothing uglier than an ugly mouth, there's nothing filthier than a filthy heart. I have said many a times - extreme logic ruins the sweetness of life, just like extreme of faith ruins all common sense, and facilitates superstition. That's why you gotta be grown up enough to practice the human balance between logic and fiction, even if it means attracting mockery from militant atheists as well as religious fundamentalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Naskar, The Journey
(Sonnet 1540)

The journey began with Art of Neuroscience,
I was the rookie scholar in the block.
Amateurish intellectualism was quite evident,
till my voice took charge in the 11th work.

Finally yours truly was speaking on his own,
without leaning on those who came before.
Riding on a whim, along came sonnets,
Prose and poetry fused in Naskarean ore.

Thus original Naskar started pouring out, as
Hurricane Human, Hometown Human 'n more,
Martyr Meets World to Mücadele Muhabbet,
all as bedrock of assimilation galore.

The journey that began with science,
soon turned into a humanitarian tsunami.
Rooted in love, tempered by reason -
I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Two Naskars (Sonnet 1541)

There's not one but two Naskars,
one humanitarian, the other sufi -
both rooted in a hatebusting blend
of reason and warmth, humanizing humanity.

The humanitarian sets fire to the blood,
the sufi makes ointment out of wounds.
Though the sufi came after the humanitarian,
it has only magnified the reformer's boon.

Along the journey of a humanitarian,
the sufi emerges from his soulful sea.
Cutting ties with all cave-age customs,
oneness is actualized in mindful diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Rooted in love, tempered by reason - I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The journey that began with science,
soon turned into a humanitarian tsunami.
Rooted in love, tempered by reason -
I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Humanitarian Wildfire (The Sonnet)

Naskareans can come from any field of life,
many are nerds, some athletes, others artists.
All united by a common humanitarian vision,
all standing unbent for humane advancement.

I've even left some modest material of fiction,
for the naskarean filmmakers of the future.
Then there is the fathomless dimension of sonnets,
add some music and you're a naskarean composer.

I have left behind something for everyone,
no matter your walk of life or taste of heart.
Show me a spark of social responsibility,
I shall turn it into humanitarian wildfire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Manavad Gita, Sonnet
(Song of Human)

Cosmos is my koran,
Brahmand is my bible.
No writ is whole enough,
to contain mind indivisible.

All say their scripture is god-given*,
it takes holiness to find humans holy.
To surpass the superstition of *bhagavad,
is the beginning of civilized sanctity.

My holiness is in my hands,
no fantasy is my authority.
I'm not against faith of fiction,
but it's time for human based divinity.

If you need myths to sustain your holiness,
it's a lot of things, but it ain't holy.
Holiness of humans cares for the humans,
this is my song offering to humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim