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
ABERJHANIIf life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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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.
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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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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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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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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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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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