Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
ABERJHANIValentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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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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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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