Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
ABERJHANIAnd now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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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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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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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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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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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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