In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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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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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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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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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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