Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love
but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your
work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those
who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Work |
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the
house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Houses |
You, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not
be trapped nor tamed.
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.
You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors,
nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling,
nor fear to breathe lest walls should crack and fall down.
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
And though of magnificence and splendour, your house shall not
hold your secret nor shelter your longing.
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of
the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are
the songs and the silences of night.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Houses |
As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge
of the whole tree,
So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of
you all.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder,
And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed.
The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked,
And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon.
Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured,
And still more often the condemned is the burden-bearer for
the guiltless and unblamed.
You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from
the wicked;
For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the
black thread and the white are woven together.
And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into
the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife,
Let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and
measure his soul with measurements.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
If any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and
lay the ax unto the evil tree, let him see to its roots;
And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the
fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent
heart of the earth.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
How shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater
than their misdeeds?
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of
the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Laws |
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and
the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the
heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Friendship |
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