Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

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"The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"You must hiss at people who intend to undermine your individuality with their false pride and intellectual stupidity. You must frighten them away, lest they should do you harm. Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you. You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you’ll reach your goal."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Have faith in yourself. All the power is in your biology already. Be conscious of that power and bring it out. Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"All achievements begin with the simple cognitive faculties known as perception and imagination. Expand your perception. Expand your imagination. Be aware of your inner strength. Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal. And remember, there will always be another goal to be achieved. So, have pleasure from the pursuit."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you’ll reach your goal."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"​You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"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. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Light up the radiant flame of conscience, goodwill and compassion in your heart, and go over the length and breadth of your society in the pursuit of shedding light over the whole world. And in time, you’ll become a glorious sun that will shine over the entire human population."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Do not listen to a single soul, but your own inner voice. Foster your will and make it as wild as possible. Dive deep into the mysterious fathoms of the universe and accomplish your purpose by hook or by crook, even if it means going down to the bottom of the ocean to meet your doom."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Unfortunately for the university, none of that information could make the slightest place for itself inside the circuits of my brain. I was looking for education, but all I found was heartless indoctrination. And indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel. Do not exploit the means of education to become a man or a woman. Use it to become a human being, in the pursuit of excellence."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"All I want is to be at service of humanity, rather than being a teacher. I cannot teach anyone anything I can only make them think."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Energy drinks like Red Bull may give you wings for the moment, but in time it takes away your basic physical and mental wellness and leads to disastrous psychiatric and physiological conditions."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"We gain from the new science of mind not only insights into ourselves - how we perceive, learn, remember, feel, believe and act - but also a new perspective of ourselves and our fellow human beings in the context of biological evolution."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Harmony doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other cultural backgrounds. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being. The greatest religion that you can ever have throughout your entire existence is love."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

"Harmony doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other cultural backgrounds. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being."

Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost