All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.
KhalilThey say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
KhalilAll that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.
KhalilI have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
KhalilCast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
KhalilSome find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibranโs poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlighteningโitโs hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like โThat which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.โ
Khalil