Aberjhani Quotes

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

~ Aberjhani

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

~ Aberjhani

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

~ Aberjhani

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

~ Aberjhani

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

~ Aberjhani

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

~ Aberjhani

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

~ Aberjhani

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are One

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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

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What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

~ Aberjhani

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.

~ Aberjhani

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

~ Aberjhani

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

~ Aberjhani

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asunder.While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History Lesson

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Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

~ Aberjhani

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own, and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

~ Aberjhani

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

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Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

~ Aberjhani