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
ABERJHANIThis world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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As goes love so goes life.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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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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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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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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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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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 act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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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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