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| Kahlil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. An eye for an eye – and the whole world would be blind. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. One cannot reach the dawn except by the path of night.Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' The deeper that sorrow carves into us, the more joy we can contain.The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own living. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them and turn
them into newspapers that we may record our emptiness.Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. Yes, there is a nirvana: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. |
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