“How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.”

Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,

The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

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.

Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.

The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.