His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
ABERJHANIOverall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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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 death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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As 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.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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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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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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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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