The River of Winged Dreams Quotes

“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Hope drowned in shadows
emerges fiercely splendid––
boldly angelic.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Now come the whispers
bearing bouquets of moonbeams
and sunlight tremblings.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Quote words that affirm
all men and women are your
brothers and sisters.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“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.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Where humanity
sowed faith, hope, and unity,
joy’s garden blossomed.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“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”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“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.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“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.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“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.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams