Aberjhani Quotes
Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.
In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...
Show MoreThe dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...
Show MoreIf it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...
Show MoreIn your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.
Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.
What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this wor...
Show MoreAuthentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...
Show MoreDare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...
Show MoreThe act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...
Show MoreMost people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their live...
Show MoreEach star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirit...
Show MoreThere is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...
Show MoreArt gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...
Show MoreYou are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...
Show MorePoetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings mak...
Show MoreThe music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light...
Show MoreWhether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...
Show MoreWhat can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...
Show MoreThen came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...
Show MoreWe ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...
Show MoreMillions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...
Show MoreGot just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...
Show MoreHuman beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...
Show MoreIndividual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...
Show MoreA bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...
Show MoreAt the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...
Show MoreDemocracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...
Show MoreSimple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dis...
Show MoreWhen the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...
Show MoreDiscourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...
Show MoreOn faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if o...
Show MoreThe glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to hate...
Show MoreThe best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...
Show MoreWhen a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform ...
Show MorePoetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...
Show MorePoetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and...
Show MoreA world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a l...
Show MoreOur greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...
Show MoreIndividuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...
Show MoreOn either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...
Show MoreHistory, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...
Show MoreThe whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...
Show MoreIn this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back ...
Show MoreDiversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...
Show MoreMaking the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...
Show MoreHumanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...
Show MoreI called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a...
Show MoreWhat hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi...
Show MoreA poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...
Show MoreJourney through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from ...
Show MoreIn an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...
Show MorePeace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...
Show MoreThe birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications gener...
Show MoreChange is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...
Show MoreNow come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...
Show MoreSome have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilli...
Show MoreWithin the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...
Show MoreThe word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...
Show MoreThe ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...
Show MoreTrayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...
Show MoreIt [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and ...
Show MoreIn its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea ...
Show MoreFirst steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...
Show MoreFreedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that tur...
Show MoreThe issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...
Show MoreJust above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...
Show MoreMany Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual le...
Show MoreThe instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...
Show MoreThere is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a r...
Show MoreThe job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...
Show MoreAt the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...
Show MorePoetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addr...
Show MoreThe reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...
Show MoreThis fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...
Show MoreThe words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers bu...
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