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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.Aberjhani
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never DiesAberjhani
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.Aberjhani
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.”--from Past Present and Future are OneAberjhani
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Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.Aberjhani
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The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.Luther E. Vann
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…Aberjhani
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History LessonAberjhani
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.Aberjhani
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.Aberjhani
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.Aberjhani
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It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.Luther E. Vann
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The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.Aberjhani
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Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.Luther E. Vann
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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 the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the multidimensional qualities of the painting itself; or an extended contemplation of the scripture in the title, which in the King James Bible reads as follows: “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects; namely, the very serious plight of those who truly are homeless in this world, whether born into such a condition, or forced into it by poverty or war.Aberjhani
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.Aberjhani