From ‘Agnostic Khushwant. There is no God!’ by ‘Khushwant Singh with Ashok Chopra’

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that every intelligent man makes his own religion though there are a hundred versions of it.

Masjid ddhaa dey, Mandar ddhaa dey

Ddhaa dey jo kuchh ddhenda.

Ik kisey da dil na ddhavein

Rabb dilaan vicch rehndaa

(Break down the mosque, break down the temple

Break down whatever there is besides;

But never break a human heart

That is where God Himself resides.)

-          Bulleh Shah, a Punjabi Sufi poet

Mai khor, mimbar ba-soz, O aatish andar Kaaba zan

Sakin-e-butkhana baash, O mardam azaari mekun

(Drink wine, tear up the holy book, set fire to the house of God

Go make your house in a temple full of idols;

You may do all these but do not hurt a man.)

-          Hafiz (the fourteenth-century Sufi poet)

Dile badast aavar keh haj-e-akbar ast

az hazaaraan Kaaba, yak-e-dil behtarast

(Go into your hearts, it is the greatest pilgrimage

One heart is better than a thousand Kaabas.)

-          Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi (a thirteenth-century Sufi poet)

This above all: To thine own self be true

And it must follow as the night the day

Thou canst not then be false to any man

-          Shakespeare in Hamlet

Caveab homine unius libri: Beware of the man of one book

-          Old Latin saying