“Faith is A Private Pill (Sonnet)” — Abhijit Naskar Quote

“Faith is A Private Pill (Sonnet)”

“Science is philosophy is theology is poetry.”

“Sacred stripped of supernatural becomes astronomically potent.”

“If you bring electricity to a marginalized community with a simple solar power kit, it's a far greater scientific achievement than the gargantuan glories of the LHC.”

“We're all brief, astonishing configuration of atoms, capable of tremendous hate or boundless love - the choice is ours.”

“I am not old, I am not young,”

“The killer was a man full of hate who walked into a bar full of love and tried to extinguish it. The entire LGBTQ+ community has been riddled with unimaginable pain at the hands of cowardly people.”

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.”

“The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.”

“Someone has said,”Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.”..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.”

“How do you do it?'' one of the nicer guards asked me one day through the interpreter. ''How do you not lose your mind with loneliness? How do you starve yourself? How do you survive without wanting to die?''”