I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
KhalilWe were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
KhalilI go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
KhalilSome find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’
Khalil