Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
ABERJHANIWhen the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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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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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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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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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
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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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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