First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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.
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.
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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.
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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.
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.
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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.
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.
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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.
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