An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
ABERJHANIWhile many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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With 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.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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