Matisyahu Brainy Quotes

We are all an instrument with a special notation to our individual identity. When you incorporate many beautiful notes together, you envelop a harmonious orchestra. ~ Steven Cuoco

There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune. ~ Arthur Eddington

No one is inferior to no one. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. ~ Abhijit Naskar

In any problem situation,there is always a solution. ~ Lilia U. Chmelarz

There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters. ~ Abhijit Naskar

In everyday life of the common human, reason takes a back seat and emotions dictate all significant behavior. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone. ~ Steven Cuoco

There is no such thing as predestined. Human destiny in the human world is determined by none but the humans. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. ~ Sigmund Freud

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The best meditation app is not an app, but the human mind. ~ Abhijit Naskar

I have shaped and nourished my mind for years to hail all women on earth as my sisters and their problems as my problems. When I am engaged in a conversation with one of my sisters anywhere in the world, my eyes are not subconsciously driven to take a quick peek down her blouse. I belong to all women, all men, everywhere, as a brother. And being a brother calls for the responsibility of thinking, feeling and behaving like a brother, instead of a potential mate-hunter. Here I am by no means insinuating that all men should see all women as sisters, rather I am pointing out that all civilized men should at the very least have the decency to see women as persons, and not as objects of sexual gratification or as potential mating partners, because only then we shall succeed as a conscientious species to give a safe and non-predatory environment to our children. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Whenever there is an uprising of misery, discrimination and sectarianism, I shall rise over and over again, to take humanity with me in the path of sweet, progressive harmony. ~ Abhijit Naskar

When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Forget the world, forget civilization, forget all those pompous ideas of progress and global goals, simply take a stand in your vicinity, in your locality, against discrimination, against prejudices, against corruption and harassment. ~ Abhijit Naskar

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex. ~ Matisyahu

I am pain-stricken to say, that today's so-called modern humans are all like the dogs in Pavlov's experiment. Pavlov used a bell to manipulate the mind of his dogs, and today, social media platforms are using people's own beloved smartphones to manipulate them. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It's ridiculously easy to fall in love, what's hard is to sustain that love for life. ~ Abhijit Naskar

What is it to keep kosher? Is it eating kosher potato chips? Kosher is a bigger idea. I think it's about being healthy. But according to some people, it's about not eating this food because it's forbidden by the Jewish law. My view of the halachah changed a little bit. The laws are there hopefully to be a tool. ~ Matisyahu

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music. ~ Matisyahu

One who knows pain, can help others without gain. ~ Abhijit Naskar

It is true that breasts can induce sexual tension in men, but truer than that is the fact, that breasts are the primary and healthiest source of nutrition for the infant, so, if men can't use their higher mental faculty of self-restraint at the sight of breastfeeding at public places, then it's not the women who need to change their breastfeeding place, it's the men who need to work on their character. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Be the solution, not the pollution. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Are all the scientists here men, then?" "Scientists?" Oiie asked, incredulous. Pae coughed. "Scientists. Oh, yes, certainly, they're all men. There are some female teachers in the girls' schools, of course. But they never get past Certificate level." "Why not?" "Can't do the math; no head for abstract thought; don't belong. You know how it is, what women call thinking is done with the uterus! Of course, there's always a few exceptions, God-awful brainy women with vaginal atrophy." "You Odonians let women study science?" Oiie inquired. "Well, they are in the sciences, yes." "Not many, I hope." "Well, about half. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The conflicts between science and religion still remain in this day and age, because though most people understand what science means, they do not have a clue what religion means – and they do not even have a clue that they do not have a clue. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time. ~ Abhijit Naskar

In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. ~ Steven Cuoco

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~ Jim Rohn

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Some people like baseball, some soccer and some others like no sports at all. Their psychological orientation with sports doesn't make them any less or more human. The same is with religious orientation. The true Kingdom of God is within you, and it is defined by your behavior with other people, regardless of their religious affiliation. You are the God of your life, and your divinity lies in your actions. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. ~ Charles Darwin

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The need has finally arisen, for the humans to stand up, in order to make humanity come true, otherwise, we will end up as yet another dying species - and unlike other animal species, we will not die probably of starvation or sickness, rather we will die due to our intellectual stupidity - due to the unrealization of our innate humanity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Whatever you say to yourself, silently or aloud, tells your brain what to focus on. Simple! ~ Sam Owen

Love and Divinity are both gifts from Nature, fraught with the highest bliss. ~ Abhijit Naskar

All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Inflicting harm on another is not the only crime, silently seeing harm inflicted on another is also a crime. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Mind is the altar, mind is the temple, mind is the lord and mind is the gospel. ~ Abhijit Naskar

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom. ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer. ~ Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf. ~ Matisyahu

It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed ~ Grace Paley