Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)

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The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

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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.

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself....
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night....
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

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And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a drain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, thirst that is unquenchable?

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You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

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Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,
And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work,
And all work is empty save when there is love.

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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

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