K –Kahlil Gibran #AtoZChallenge
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” ~Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet, artist and philosopher. His renowned classic ‘The Prophet’ is one of the masterpieces of our times. It has been translated in more than a hundred languages.
Through this post, I only want to highlight some of his quotes as they speak of his profound views on everything life. These are my selected ones, just a drop from his ocean of greatness:
On Love
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
On Suffering
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“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.”
On Friendship
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
On Marriage
“You were born together and together you shall be forever more…But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
On Women
“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
On Children:
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.
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 bows 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 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 loves also the bow that is stable.’
This post is part of the #AtoZChallenge 2017 Blogging from A to Z: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/
I write about my spiritual and personal growth influences from A to Z.
My previous posts in chronology:
A: A New Earth
G: GANDHI
J: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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