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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

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
Judgement
Treasure
Roots
Heard
Found
Earth
Men
Digging

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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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All work is empty save when there is love.
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It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.
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The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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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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Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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