Top 160 Aberjhani Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “As goes love so goes life.”

— Aberjhani

102. “Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace.”

— Aberjhani

103. “In its essence, Elemental, the Power of Illuminated Love, maintains we are all on a quest to experience qualities of compassion and acceptance capable of helping to sustain both the individual and the larger society. Because such a journey tends to take place even more within than without, the visual imagery, words, and music of ILLUMINATED LOVE incorporates both levels of that reality.”

— Aberjhani

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

— Aberjhani

105. “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.”

— Aberjhani

106. “Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.”

— Aberjhani

107. “I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.”

— Aberjhani

108. “Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.”

— Aberjhani

109. “Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.”

— Aberjhani

110. “At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.”

— Aberjhani

111. “Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.”

— Aberjhani

112. “The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.”

— Aberjhani

113. “It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”

— Aberjhani

114. “On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.”

— Aberjhani

115. “Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.”

— Aberjhani

116. “What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?”

— Aberjhani

117. “As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.”

— Aberjhani

118. “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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119. “How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson.”

— Aberjhani

120. “Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.”

— Aberjhani

121. “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.”

— Aberjhani

122. “On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”

— Aberjhani

123. “Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.”

— Aberjhani

124. “In your hands winter...”

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125. “An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively – even if with much dread – in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.”

— Aberjhani

126. “The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.”

— Aberjhani

127. “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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128. “Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.”

— Aberjhani

129. “When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.”

— Aberjhani

130. “An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

— Aberjhani

131. “Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.”

— Aberjhani

132. “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.”

— Aberjhani

133. “When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”

— Aberjhani

134. “Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.”

— Aberjhani

135. “The story of the American Civil War is essentially one of human beings––Northerners, Southerners, Blacks, Whites, men, women–– holding themselves accountable for the future of a nation.”

— Aberjhani

136. “Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.”

— Aberjhani

137. “The realization of dreams, like every battle for freedom, has always required compromise to one degree or another. When the result of a concession, however, is the mutilation of your soul or the cancellation of someone else’s future, then it may be said the desired goal was corrupted or destroyed rather than attained.”

— Aberjhani

138. “At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.”

— Aberjhani

139. “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.”

— Aberjhani

140. “Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.”

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141. “We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”

— Aberjhani

142. “What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”

— Aberjhani

143. “True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.”

— Aberjhani

144. “Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.”

— Aberjhani

145. “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

146. “I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.”

— Aberjhani

147. “That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.”

— Aberjhani

148. “Naked flights of art unshackled and incandescent songs of poetry undiluted return to the soul what hate, ignorance, fear, and violence steal from the heart.”

— Aberjhani

149. “All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.”

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150. “The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.”

— Aberjhani