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Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

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
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As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
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Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet you may even throw me into a dark prison but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness
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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
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A truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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