Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul," but rather, " I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
For what is evil, but good tortured by it's own hunger and thurst.
And beauty is not a need, but an ecstasy.
Who can seperate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupation.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistency.
No man can reveal to you aught but that wich is already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshhold of your own mind.
And even as each of you stands alone in god's knowledge, so must each of you be alone in his knowledge of God and his understanding of the earth.
- Khalil Gibran
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There are few people who have ever walked the earth with a wisdom that rivals Khalil Gibran. That man was godly in his ability to see the world so clearly.
For my 21st birthday I was presented with an amazing album filled with photos of all the people dear to me; my son, mother, brother, friends...
On each page, written in the most careful, beautiful script were these words.
Reading them here, took me back there. Thank you.
You are welcome Jasai.
My family also shares a special relationship with Gibran. My mother and father met and married in 10 days.
Legend has it that their entire 10 day conversation was one long mutual meditation on "The Prophet".
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