Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran (6 January 1883 - 10 April 1931) Poet and artist; his name is also often spelled Kahlil

See also: The Prophet

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Prophet (1923) 1.2 The Vision - Reflections on the Way of the Soul 2 Attributed 3 External links

Sourced

• O love, whose lordly hand
  Has bridled my desires,
  And raised my hunger and my thirst
  To dignity and pride,
  Let not the strong in me and the constant
  Eat the bread or drink the wine
  That tempt my weaker self.
  Let me rather starve,
  And let my heart parch with thirst,
  And let me die and perish,
  Ere I stretch my hand
  To a cup you did not fill,
  Or a bowl you did not bless.
  • "Love" from The Forerunner

• The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
  • Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran

• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
  • A Handful of Sand on the Shore

The Prophet (1923)

For more from this work see: The Prophet

• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

• Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

The Vision - Reflections on the Way of the Soul

• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. (Chapter: Children of Gods, Scions of Apes)

Attributed

• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

• Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

• The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

• "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

External links

• Khalil Gibran Tribute Site
• Kahlil Gibran Online
• Prayer of the Winged Self by Kahlil Gibran

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