Aberjhani Quotes

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

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.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

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.

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.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

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.

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.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

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.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

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

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.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

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

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

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 weakness but gifts of significant strength.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.