Kahlil Gibran

They call me a madman.
Seven times i was born, and seven times I have died.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Your joy can only fill you as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion.. the spirit.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Great and sublime truths pass not from one human creature to another by way of human speech.. they choose silence as a road between souls.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

But I have found that all these things are not worth one moment of a true and sanctified love.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

..weeping is like prayer, and the tears of compassion are as a good deed.. they ascend from the depths of the spirit, a living thing..

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

I saw Beauty as the groom
and the Spirit his bride
And Life, in its all..

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

My thought holds that there are no riches but life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

I drink dew for wine, and hearken to the voices of the birds, and dance to the rhythmic swaying of the grass

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Go back to the joy of your dwellings and you will find there that which Death cannot remove from you and me

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Cover me with soft earth.. jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they grow above me.. they will breathe the fragrance of my heart into space

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

make Beauty your religion, and worship her as your godhead; for she is the visible, manifest and perfect handiwork of God.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Night is over, and we children of the night (this dawn) must die.. out of our ashes a mightier love shall rise.. and it shall be deathless.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

In my need for your love I feign remoteness, and in fear of the ebb-tide of your love I guard the floodgates of my love.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

How shall I turn this sea within me into mist, and move with you in space immeasurable.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

The melody (of mist-birds singing) holds my heart as the white rose imprisons the bee within her petals.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

[Kahlil Gibran @Gibran_Prophet]

Love is the only freedom... it so elevates the
spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not
alter its course.