Kahlil Gibran

1:Out of suffering have emerged the strongest Souls; ~ Kahlil Gibran,

2:Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

3:And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than you joy." ~ Kahlil Gibran,

4:Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
~ Kahlil Gibran,

5:And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

6:I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers." ~ Kahlil Gibran,

7:DEFEAT
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being shunned and scorned.
Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,
You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,
And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,
And urging of seas,
And of mountains that burn in the night,
And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.
Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

8:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.>p>Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,

9:reading :::
50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered:
Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954)
St Augustine - Confessions (400)
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932)
Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976)
Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922)
Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001)
Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971)
Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century)
Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)
GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963)
Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951)
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922)
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944)
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994)
John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997)
Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976)
Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968)
Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758)
Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570)
Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994)
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998)
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998)
Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979)
Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000)
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition),

* WISDOM TROVE *

1:Love is trembling happiness. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

2:Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

3:You have your ideology and I have mine. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

4:Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

5:Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

6:Let your home be your mast and not your anchor. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

7:Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

8:Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

9:Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

10:Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

11:We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

12:Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

13:A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

14:Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

15:Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

16:Say not I have found the truth, but rather I have found a truth. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

17:There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

18:Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

19:Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

20:For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

21:Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

22:For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

23:All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

24:Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

25:The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

26:To be able to look back on one’s life in satisfaction is to live twice. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

27:Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

28:You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

29:In the dew of little things, the heart finds it's morning and is refreshed. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

30:The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

31:.. it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

32:I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

33:Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

34:Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

35:A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

36:Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

37:If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

38:It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

39:A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

40:Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

41:And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

42:Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

43:Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

44:To you the Earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you know how to fill your hands. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

45:He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

46:The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

47:To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

48:When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart", but rather, "I am in the heart of God”. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

49:For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

50:When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

51:They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

52:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

53:Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

54:If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

55:What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

56:And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

57:Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

58:Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

59:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

60:I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

61:To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

62:I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

63:Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

64:Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

65:Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

66:Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

67:Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

68:I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

69:Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

70:In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

71:Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

72:Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

73:All work is empty save when there is love. And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

74:Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

75: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. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

76:March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

77:For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

78:If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

79:The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

80: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, and it is the spirit. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

81:I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

82:Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

83:And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

84:In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

85:The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

86:I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

87:When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

88: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. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

89:Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

90:When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

91:Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

92:Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

93:A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

94:Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

95:The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

96:The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in 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. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

97:The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

98:Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

99:Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

100:A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe- inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

101:Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

102:God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

103:Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

104:Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

105:But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

106: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. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half people's hunger. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

107:Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met 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. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

108:Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

109:Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

110:No person can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teachers who walk in the shadow of the temple, among their followers, give not of their wisdom but rather of their faith and their lovingness. If they are indeed wise they do not bid you enter the house of their wisdom, but rather lead you to the threshold of your own mind. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

111:Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility; for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup he brings, though it burn your lips has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

112:Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls. for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove

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1:Out of suffering have emerged the strongest Souls; ~ Kahlil Gibran,

2:The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul ~ Kahlil Gibran,

3:Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

4:Sadness is a wall between two gardens. —Kahlil Gibran ~ William Paul Young,

5:You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

6:Beauty is not in the face; beauty is the light in the heart. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

7:We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

8:Solitude is a silent stormthat breaks down all ourdead branches. ~ Kahlil Gibran#poetry,

9:Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. –Kahlil Gibran ~ Preeti Shenoy,

10:Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

11:Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

12:We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” —Kahlil Gibran ~ Laura Thalassa,

13:Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

14:Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet) ~ Khalil Gibran,

15:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself ~ Kahlil Gibran,

16:Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

17:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~ Kahlil Gibran,

18:Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN ~ Luis Carlos Montalv n,

19:Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

20:And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet ~ Jodi Picoult,

21:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

22:You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

23:Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran ~ Cecilia London,

24:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. —KAHLIL GIBRAN ~ Jacqueline Winspear,

25:Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran ~ Penny ReidJethro~ Penny Reid ~ Penny Reid,

26:Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” —Kahlil Gibran ~ John C Maxwell,

27:Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

28:The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

29:Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
~ Kahlil Gibran,

30:When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

31:One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

32:It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

33:"The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable." ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Madman,

34:There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated. ~ Dick Cavett,

35:I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

36:I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything. ~ Quincy Jones,

37:Kahlil Gibran put it, ‘Joy and sorrow are inseparable . . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. ~ Jim Beaver,

38: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. —Kahlil Gibran, ‘The Prophet ~ Preeti Shenoy,

39:Kahlil Gibran said, “When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.” So, what is your work? Your purpose? Are you living it out the way your heart urges you to? ~ Wayne W Dyer,

40:I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

41:The real individuality is that which never changes and will never change; and that is the God within us. ~ Swami VivekanandaThe real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative... Kahlil Gibran,

42:Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

43:No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

44:The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)
POET AND ARTIST ~ Rhonda Byrne,

45:Other works in English by Naimy are: Memoirs of a Vagrant Soul, or Pitted Face, Till We Meet and his biography of Kahlil Gibran, who was for sixteen years his intimate friend and companion in New York. ~ Mikhail Naimy,

46:Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I’m going to hold a lot of joy. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

47:Modern, Historical and Fictional Examples: Helena Blavatsky, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Anandamayi Ma, Kahlil Gibran, Herman Melville, Paul Gaugin, Whoopie Goldberg, Alice Walker, Mattie Stepanek, Igor Stravinsky, Meryl Streep ~ Aletheia Luna,

48:Kahlil Gibran, the spiritual Lebanese poet, once advised that “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. ~ Wayne W Dyer,

49:Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

50:When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

51:suddenly remembered a beautiful verse by the great Lebanese philosopher Kahlil Gibran: “Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.” I imagined my mother at the side of her mother and father, with her own little ones gathered in her arms. ~ Jean Sasson,

52:Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

53:ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN

"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."

-- Claude Bragdon ~ Claude Bragdon,

54:I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams. ~ Andrew Young,

55:Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I’m going to hold a lot of joy. ~ Karen Marie Moning,

56:All prospective parents should read Kahlil Gibran’s excellent treatise “On Children” in his classic book, The Prophet. He says: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ~ Eric Butterworth,

57:Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Lawrence Kushner, Kabbalah: A Love Story; C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now ~ Paulo Coelho,

58:It's like Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet: 'Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton,

59:It’s like Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet: “Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton,

60:Kahlil Gibran trong cuốn sách tuyệt vời của mình The Prophet nói người yêu nên giống như các cây cột trụ của ngôi đền - đỡ cho cùng mái, nhưng không quá gần nhau. Giống như các cột trụ... Nếu họ quá gần, thì cả ngôi đền sẽ sụp; nếu họ đi quá xa, thế nữa cả ngôi đền cũng sẽ sụp đổ. Họ không thể tới quá gần; họ không thể đi quá xa. Họ nên giống như những cột trụ của ngôi đền, đỡ cho cùng mái. ~ Anonymous,

61:We can't say, "Listen, you barbarians: These holy books of yours are filled with murderous nonsense. In the interest of getting you to behave like civilized human beings, we're going to redact them and give you back something that reads like Kahlil Gibran. There you go ... Don't you feel better now that you no longer hate homosexuals?” However, that's really what one should be able to do in any intellectual tradition in the twenty-first century. ~ Sam Harris,

62:Not long after that I was walking along the beach, I dropped to my knees, I began crying because I realized that I'd gotten sober, but I hadn’t done it for my kids, or even my own health. I hadn’t thought about them when I was using, so why would I have gotten sober for them, either. Drugs robbed me of my spirituality and compassion, only later to find I’d lost Liv and Mia as well — I cried when they forgave me for my past behaviors but I’ll be working on it for the rest of my life.

What would I say to my children? We may have picked the key but they are their own song. We don’t own them, they only pass through us, as Kahlil Gibran says in The Prophet, they don’t owe us anything either. ~ Steven Tyler,

63:Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

64:Choking back sobs, I tried to remember a verse from Kahlil Gibran on the question of death. I first whispered it, and as a my memory of it returned, I slowly raised my voice, until all could hear me. 'Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.' My sisters and I joined hands, remembering that we were like a chain - as strong as the strongest link, weak as the weakest link. As never before, we belonged to a sisterhood more powerful than that of our own blood. Never again would we sit back and wonder at the cruelty of men and the obscene arbitrariness of innocent female death, brought about by men's evil. ~ Jean Sasson,

65:I want to be clear that when I used terms such as “pretense” and “intellectual dishonesty” when we first met, I wasn’t casting judgment on you personally. Simply living with the moderate’s dilemma may be the only way forward, because the alternative would be to radically edit these books. I’m not such an idealist as to imagine that will happen. We can’t say, “Listen, you barbarians: These holy books of yours are filled with murderous nonsense. In the interests of getting you to behave like civilized human beings, we’re going to redact them and give you back something that reads like Kahlil Gibran. There you go … Don’t you feel better now that you no longer hate homosexuals?” However, that’s really what one should be able to do in any intellectual tradition in the twenty-first century. Again, this problem confronts religious moderates everywhere, but it’s an excruciating problem for Muslims. ~ Sam Harris,

66:Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

67:Kahlil Gibran addresses himself in what are perhaps the finest words ever written about child-raising: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. 19 ~ M Scott Peck,

68:DEFEAT
Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all world-glory.
Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being shunned and scorned.
Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed.
Defeat, my Defeat, my bold companion,
You shall hear my songs and my cries and my silences,
And none but you shall speak to me of the beating of wings,
And urging of seas,
And of mountains that burn in the night,
And you alone shall climb my steep and rocky soul.
Defeat, my Defeat, my deathless courage,
You and I shall laugh together with the storm,
And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us,
And we shall stand in the sun with a will,
And we shall be dangerous. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

69:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.>p>Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,

70:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. 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. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself."

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran,

71:reading :::
50 Spiritual Classics: List of Books Covered:
Muhammad Asad - The Road To Mecca (1954)
St Augustine - Confessions (400)
Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Black Elk Black - Elk Speaks (1932)
Richard Maurice Bucke - Cosmic Consciousness (1901)
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics (1976)
Carlos Castaneda - Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
GK Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi (1922)
Pema Chodron - The Places That Scare You (2001)
Chuang Tzu - The Book of Chuang Tzu (4th century BCE)
Ram Dass - Be Here Now (1971)
Epictetus - Enchiridion (1st century)
Mohandas Gandhi - An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1927)
Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness (1097)
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet (1923)
GI Gurdjieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men (1960)
Dag Hammarskjold - Markings (1963)
Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Sabbath (1951)
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha (1922)
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (1954)
William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Carl Gustav Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1955)
Margery Kempe - The Book of Margery Kempe (1436)
J Krishnamurti - Think On These Things (1964)
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
Daniel C Matt - The Essential Kabbalah (1994)
Dan Millman - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1989)
W Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge (1944)
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
Michael Newton - Journey of Souls (1994)
John O'Donohue - Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (1998)
Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (1994)
Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements (1997)
Helen Schucman & William Thetford - A Course in Miracles (1976)
Idries Shah - The Way of the Sufi (1968)
Starhawk - The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970)
Emanuel Swedenborg - Heaven and Hell (1758)
Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle (1570)
Mother Teresa - A Simple Path (1994)
Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (1998)
Chogyam Trungpa - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God (1998)
Rick Warren - The Purpose-Driven Life (2002)
Simone Weil - Waiting For God (1979)
Ken Wilber - A Theory of Everything (2000)
Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography of a Yogi (1974)
Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul (1990)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Spirital Classics (2017 Edition),

72:JANUARY 26 Being Kind-I You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The great and fierce mystic William Blake said, There is no greater act than putting another before you. This speaks to a selfless giving that seems to be at the base of meaningful love. Yet having struggled for a lifetime with letting the needs of others define me, I've come to understand that without the healthiest form of self-love—without honoring the essence of life that this thing called “self” carries, the way a pod carries a seed—putting another before you can result in damaging self-sacrifice and endless codependence. I have in many ways over many years suppressed my own needs and insights in an effort not to disappoint others, even when no one asked me to. This is not unique to me. Somehow, in the course of learning to be good, we have all been asked to wrestle with a false dilemma: being kind to ourselves or being kind to others. In truth, though, being kind to ourselves is a prerequisite to being kind to others. Honoring ourselves is, in fact, the only lasting way to release a truly selfless kindness to others. It is, I believe, as Mencius, the grandson of Confucius, says, that just as water unobstructed will flow downhill, we, given the chance to be what we are, will extend ourselves in kindness. So, the real and lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so that we can be who we are, holding nothing back. If we can work toward this kind of authenticity, then the living kindness—the water of compassion—will naturally flow. We do not need discipline to be kind, just an open heart. Center yourself and meditate on the water of compassion that pools in your heart. As you breathe, simply let it flow, without intent, into the air about you. JANUARY 27 Being Kind-II We love what we attend. —MWALIMU IMARA There were two brothers who never got along. One was forever ambushing everything in his path, looking for the next treasure while the first was still in his hand. He swaggered his shield and cursed everything he held. The other brother wandered in the open with very little protection, attending whatever he came upon. He would linger with every leaf and twig and broken stone. He blessed everything he held. This little story suggests that when we dare to move past hiding, a deeper law arises. When we bare our inwardness fully, exposing our strengths and frailties alike, we discover a kinship in all living things, and from this kinship a kindness moves through us and between us. The mystery is that being authentic is the only thing that reveals to us our kinship with life. In this way, we can unfold the opposite of Blake's truth and say, there is no greater act than putting yourself before another. Not before another as in coming first, but rather as in opening yourself before another, exposing your essence before another. Only in being this authentic can real kinship be known and real kindness released. It is why we are moved, even if we won't admit it, when strangers let down and show themselves. It is why we stop to help the wounded and the real. When we put ourselves fully before another, it makes love possible, the way the stubborn land goes soft before the sea. Place a favorite object in front of you, and as you breathe, put yourself fully before it and feel what makes it special to you. As you breathe, meditate on the place in you where that specialness comes from. Keep breathing evenly, and know this specialness as a kinship between you and your favorite object. During your day, take the time to put yourself fully before something that is new to you, and as you breathe, try to feel your kinship to it. ~ Mark Nepo,

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