Quotes from Aberjhani

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

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

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

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.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

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

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

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

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

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

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

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

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.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

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

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

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

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.