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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.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Desire
Soul
Drives
Men
Unseen
Deep
Divine
Philosophy
Seen
Within

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In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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