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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

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Love, Life, Brother

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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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.

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Love, Spiritual, Writing

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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.

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Dream, Prayer, Light

Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.110, Lulu.com

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

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Spiritual, Integrity, Meditation

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.67, Lulu.com

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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

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Flower, Bridges, Agony

Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

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Light, Air, Tone

Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.16, Bright Skylark Book Products

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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.

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Creative Visualization, Imagination, Meditation

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.1, Lulu.com

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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

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Mother, Children, Fall

Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.9, Bright Skylark Book Products

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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

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Light, Miracle, Steps

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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

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Writing, Reality, Mirrors

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.4, Lulu.com

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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.

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Voice, Identity, World

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

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Dream, Feet, Vision

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.67, Lulu.com

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

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Life And Death, Shining, Rebirth

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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Art, Mirrors, Looking In The Mirror

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

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Book, Winter, Clouds

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.45, Lulu.com

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'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

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Black And White, Maturity, Past

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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

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Love, Life, Healing

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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 the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

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Inspirational, Religious, Nature

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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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 of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

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Fate, Voting, Humanity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.72, Lulu.com

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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.

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Destiny, Impact, Humanity

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

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Art, Leader, Humanity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.35, Lulu.com

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

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Patriotic, Justice, Humanity

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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

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Government, Symbolism, White

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.37, Lulu.com

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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 us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

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Life, Freedom, Mistake

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