A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
ABERJHANIFirst gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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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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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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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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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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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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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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