Aberjhani Quotes: 40

• Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

  Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

• Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

  Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• 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?

  Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

• Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• 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.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• 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.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• 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.

  Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

• 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.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• 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.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

  Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

• In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

  I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

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

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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

  The River of Winged Dreams

• 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.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

  The River of Winged Dreams

• This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• 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.

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• 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.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

  The American Poet Who Went Home Again

• 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.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• 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 One

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

• 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 Lesson

  Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

• 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.

  The Wisdom of W.E.B. DuBois

• What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry