Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
ABERJHANIGroping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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