What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
ABERJHANIWhat they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
ABERJHANIYet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
ABERJHANIThe more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
ABERJHANIMost people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
ABERJHANIAs a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
ABERJHANIAll the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
ABERJHANIWhile many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
ABERJHANIWhat a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
ABERJHANIThe fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
ABERJHANIOthers would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
ABERJHANIWhites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
ABERJHANIHis [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
ABERJHANIWith intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
ABERJHANIMovies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
ABERJHANIUnless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
ABERJHANIBecause of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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