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Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorrow as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation.
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When you know a thing, you believe it, and the true believer sees with his spiritual discernment that which the surface investigator cannot see with the eyes of his head, and he understands through his inner
thought that which the outside examiner cannot understand with his demanding, acquired process of thought. The believer acquaints himself with the sacred realities through deep senses different from those used by others. A believer looks upon his senses as a great wall surrounding him, and when he walks upon the path he says, "This city has no exit, but it is perfect within." The believer lives for all the days and the nights and the unfaithful live but a few hours.~Kahlil Gibran -
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
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You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever
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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.
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!
~Kahlil Gibran
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