Aberjhani quotes Showing 1-30 of 167
“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani
“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”
― Aberjhani
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Aberjhani
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Aberjhani
“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”
― Aberjhani
“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
― Aberjhani
“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”
― Aberjhani
“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
― Aberjhani
“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
― Aberjhani
“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”
― Aberjhani
“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
“Shine your soul with the same
egoless humility as the rainbow
and no matter where you go
in this world or the next,
love will find you, attend you, and bless 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
“To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani
“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
― Aberjhani
“Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”
― Aberjhani
“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”
― Aberjhani
“History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.”
― Aberjhani
“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. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani
“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
“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
― Aberjhani
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”
― Aberjhani
“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.”
― Aberjhani
“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
― Aberjhani
“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani
“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”
― Aberjhani
“There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.”
― Aberjhani
“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
― Aberjhani
“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”
― Aberjhani
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“Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.”
― Aberjhani
“Hope drowned in shadows
emerges fiercely splendid––
boldly angelic.”
― Aberjhani
“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.”
― Aberjhani
“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”
― Aberjhani
“Now come the whispers
bearing bouquets of moonbeams
and sunlight tremblings.”
― Aberjhani
“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
― Aberjhani
“In your hands winter
is a book with cloud pages
that snow pearls of love.”
― Aberjhani
“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”
― Aberjhani
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.”
― Aberjhani
“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
― Aberjhani
“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind
most of our colors are amazingly the same.”
― Aberjhani
“Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.”
― Aberjhani
“This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.”
― 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.”
― Aberjhani
“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.”
― Aberjhani
“With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.”
― Aberjhani
“Where humanity
sowed faith, hope, and unity,
joy’s garden blossomed.”
― Aberjhani
“Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”
― 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
“What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”
― Aberjhani
“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.”
― Aberjhani
“Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.”
― Aberjhani
“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”
― Aberjhani
“Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.”
― Aberjhani
“Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.”
― Aberjhani
“On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”
― Aberjhani
“Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.”
― 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.”
― Aberjhani
“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.”
― Aberjhani
“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
― Aberjhani