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Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

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
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
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Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
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When you part from your friend, you grieve not For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
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Your body is the harp of the soul.
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You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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