Aberjhani

In your hands winter...

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Dare to love yourself

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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As goes love so goes life.

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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdoms sharp peaks.

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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

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“Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.”

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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling…

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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

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“Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality”

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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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“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly…

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

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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply…

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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what…

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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and…

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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,…

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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals',…

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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore…

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The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate…

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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney…

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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about…

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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by…

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“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human…

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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…

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“There is a great new work before us, which is to replace with true knowledge the ignorance that has destroyed human minds.…

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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part…

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“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early…

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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only…

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“The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include…

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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

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“Each new year is another chance to get love right.”

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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

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