Khalil Gibran

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Your house is your larger body.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

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

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.