Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
16 quotes
"This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds."
"In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain."
"The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace."
"On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage."
"Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple."
"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."
"Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic."
"The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor."
"Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope."
"In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action."
"The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself."
"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."
"September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001"
"If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago."
"Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings."
"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge."