Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.

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About Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

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“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. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

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

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