Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.Collection: Romantic
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.Collection: Hope
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.Collection: Romantic
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.Collection: Motivational
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.Collection: Self Esteem
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.Collection: Humility
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Funny Valentines Day
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.Collection: Believe
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.Collection: Love Is
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.Collection: Inspirational
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.Collection: Dream
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.Collection: Inspirational
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.Collection: Valentines Day
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.Collection: Self Esteem
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.Collection: Civilization
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.Collection: Pearls
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.Collection: Compassion
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.Collection: Pain
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Gratitude
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.Collection: Angel
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.Collection: Strong
The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.Collection: Strength
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.Collection: Compassion
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.Collection: Color
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, 2001Collection: Angel
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, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with GeniusCollection: Reality
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.Collection: Spiritual
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.Collection: Beauty
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.Collection: Peace
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.Collection: Flower
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.Collection: Reality
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.Collection: Past
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.Collection: Opponents
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.Collection: Prayer
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.Collection: Love
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.Collection: Dream
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?Collection: Heart
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.Collection: Rooms
Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?Collection: Cheer
Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.Collection: Stars
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Dream
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.Collection: Light
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.Collection: Spiritual
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.Collection: Flower
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.Collection: Creative Visualization