“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader... — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no… — Aberjhani Copy Share
“Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.” — Aberjhani Copy Share
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human… — Aberjhani Copy Share
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not… — Aberjhani Copy Share
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their… — Aberjhani Copy Share
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. — Aberjhani Copy Share
“When all the lights fold back into their silence, in a place secret and safe, warm and fragrant like stars, you will realize without… — Aberjhani Copy Share
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. — Aberjhani Copy Share
“The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual… — Aberjhani Copy Share
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