Insan Himalayanoğlu Quotes

“Hotels are for leaving,
Home is for returning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Hotels are for leaving,
Home is for returning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“I Am My Teacher (Sonnet 1234)

I teach myself when I need to learn something,
I correct myself when I make mistakes.
No two year old shaped as 40, 50, 60 or 70,
Has the maturity to provide me moral guidance.

I taught myself electronics when I fell for it,
I taught myself music in my youthful high.
I taught myself languages in sheer obsession,
I taught myself aeronautics when I wanted to fly.

Critics mail, I should add "biggest ego" to my bio,
I thank them all for an astounding revelation.
If I actually behaved befitting my capacity,
Half your legends will lose their reputation.

You only see the tip of the ice-berg,
Fullness of the Himalayas you'll never see.
I chose to put many of my passions aside,
One path, one mission - one answer to calamity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“One heart, one brain, one backbone - that's all it takes to change the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Favoritism is Good (The Sonnet)

My favorite language in the world is Turkish,
Because its culture electrifies my scars.
My favorite language in the East is Telugu,
Because its music emboldens my nerves.

My favorite language in the West is Spanish,
Because it teaches me the worth of freedom.
Favorite ancient tongues are Arabic 'n Sanskrit,
For one embodies peace, another assimilation.

My favorite science of all is electronics,
For it empowers my imagination untainted.
My favorite philosophy is everyday curiosity,
It helps me transcend all sectarian intellect.

My favorite religion in the world is service,
Because it transforms an animal into human.
I don't care what you believe or don't,
As long as your behavior speaks compassion.

Favoritism is a civilized faculty,
when practiced beyond blood and border.
Problem is when you see nothing at all,
beyond the rim of your family and culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“If you are tired, slow down, don't back down.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“It's okay to fall apart - those who never fall apart, never fly afar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“夜の探検家は昼の皇帝です。”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“There's a terrorist in all of us,
as well as a transformer.
Decision is totally yours,
Wreak havoc or rise a reformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“I looked for love,
I found pain.
I avoided pain,
I lost love.

I looked for pain,
I found love.
I accepted pain,
I discovered joy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Truth isn't a measure of knowledge,
Truth is the measure of correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“To serve is to be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Explorers of night are emperors of the day.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Explorers of night are emperors of the day, explorers of chaos are emperors of order.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“All constitutions are mere books,
All scriptures are mere books,
Even my books are mere books.
Nothing is above scrutiny,
Nothing is infallible.
Till you get this simple fact,
No society is reparable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“There is a land within the lands,
which is a land beyond the lands,
an interior, past exterior divide,
beyond all primitive shenanigans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Lower the animal, fancier the extravagance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“No matter the pollution around,
Lungs never forget to breathe.
No matter the hate and judgment around,
How could the heart forget to love!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Surrender to no one,
neither god nor government!
You are born to move the world,
not to be immobilized
by halfbaked commandment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Lower the animal, fancier the extravagance,
Fancy car, fancy clothes, fancy mansion.
Higher the human, simpler the existence,
Simple life orchestrates mindful ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Distraction is the enemy of creativity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Language and ideology are not the same thing. Sociology is a language, socialism is an ideology - economics is a language, capitalism is an ideology. Language is an act of communication, ideology is an act of miscommunication. Focus on the language, not the ideology. Because no matter how perfect an ideology appears to be, sooner or later all ideology gets corrupt, particularly because ideology thrives on rigidity - whereas all languages evolve with time at a simple, natural, and almost seamless pace, with no reliance on allegiance and popularity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“There can be no growth without discipline.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Pain of love is pearl of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Only love can bring full freedom, all else brings half freedom. What is half freedom you ask? When in the name of freedom you imprison yourself to one side or sect, everything outside that sect seems evil. For example, fundamentalists choose the side of blind faith, and every act of reason seems like blasphemy - just like cold, sharp-tongue intellectuals choose the side of rationality even at the expense of humanity, and everything illogical seems outdated - or wait, I got a better one - so-called social activists often get so attached to their self-imposed identity of victimhood, that every person with a political, corporate, legal or bureaucratic background seems to appear as devil incarnate. This, my friend, is what I call "half freedom", which by the way, is far worse than the lack of freedom. And even though it manifests as an act of willful choice, when you get down to it, it's just plain old rigidity. And if we want to build a truly just, inclusive and progressive society, this hypocritical half-freedom won't do - what's needed is whole freedom - a kind of freedom that liberates the mind of all superstition as well as ignorant suspiciousness. It's time we realize, yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet. What this means is that, we gotta come together regardless of our background - the teacher, the scientist, the student, the copper, the politician, the civil servant, the entrepreneur, the economist, the janitor, the construction worker - every single person from every single walk of life must come forward surpassing all suspicious conspiracy, and contribute the best of their capacity in the making of a real civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Aklın varsa düşün,
Kalbin varsa hisset.
Gözlerin varsa gör,
Ellerin varsa yardım et.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized animal, despite being the epitome of sentimentality. What this means is that, only with the right balance between rationality and sentimentality there can exist a magical creature called human, brimming with infinite potential - but mess up the balance, and you are stuck with either a cold mechanical world run by rationality or a red-hot uncivilized world run by brutality - both equally unfit for preserving civilized life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Cosmos comes from consciousness,
Consciousness comes from cosmos.
Conscious life is cosmic life,
All else is counterfeit glasnost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect