Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir Of A Scientist Who Found Himself By Getting Lost Quotes

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

​I wanted to present Neuroscience to people in a way that would diminish their differences.

Christ attained the ultimate spiritual oneness through prayer and devotion, Moses and Mohammed through prayer, Buddha and all the Indian sages through intense meditation and so did I. And so can you.

Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.

A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.

Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.

All human endeavors are the achievements of the little specks of jelly in your head.

Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.

The female brain is engineered to avoid conflicts at all cost, whereas the male brain pleasures conflicts in the purpose of being the boss.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.

All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.

What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

Truth, by all means is the ultimate reward for all the sufferings of the human mind that often compel even the strongest of characters to get down on his or her knees.

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.