Aberjhani Quotes - Page 5

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

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.

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

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...

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

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.

Hope drowned in shadows
emerges fiercely splendid––
boldly angelic.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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 rise heroically above absurdity.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

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.

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