Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
ABERJHANIMost people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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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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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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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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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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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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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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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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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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