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Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.Aberjhani
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.Aberjhani
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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
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.Aberjhani
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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
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.Aberjhani
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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.Aberjhani
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.Aberjhani
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What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?Aberjhani
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.Aberjhani
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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.Aberjhani
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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
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.Aberjhani
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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.Aberjhani
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In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.Aberjhani
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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
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To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.Aberjhani
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of SpiritualityAberjhani
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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
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.Aberjhani
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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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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?Aberjhani
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Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.Aberjhani
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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.Aberjhani
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.Aberjhani
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.Aberjhani
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate——then spread, lift up, fly.Aberjhani
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.Aberjhani