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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
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A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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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.
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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
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When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.
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Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
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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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