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Pleasure is a freedom song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not their fruit

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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

"For ever shall we be in quest of the shores, that we may sing and be heard. But what of the wave that breaks where no ear shall hear? It is the unheard in us that nurses our deeper sorrow. Yet it is also the unheard which carves our soul to form and fashion our destiny"

Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

“I drink dew for wine, and hearken to The voices of the birds, and dance To the rhythmic swaying of the grass.

I am the lover’s gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

But I look up high to see only the light, And never look down to see my shadow. This is wisdom which man must learn.”

- Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran

“THE STRONG SHORE is my beloved And I am his sweetheart. We are at last united by love, and Then the moon draws me from him. I go to him in haste and depart Reluctantly, with many Little farewells.”

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

— Khalil Gibran

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

― Khalil Gibran

Marriage - Khalil Gibran

On Marriage

      Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"        And he answered saying:        You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.        You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.        Aye, 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.        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.