Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
ABERJHANIOthers would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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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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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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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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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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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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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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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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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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First 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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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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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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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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