Quotes by Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“The job facing American voters in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to h...”

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of we...”

“Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, th...”

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

“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to r...”

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

“The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone elses children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.”

“The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do w...”

“The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumis poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.”

“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”

“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 ar...”

“Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.”

“Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical br...”

“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”

“There is in Albert Camus literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.”

“It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in lifelike children and love and timemust never be taken for granted.”

“Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.”

“In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech is one citizens soul-searing plea with his countrymenWhites and Blacksto recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotr...”

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to ...”

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of w...”