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
ABERJHANIThe ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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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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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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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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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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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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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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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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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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