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Kahlil Gibran - On Marriage
Simonthepilgrim
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A number of threads seem to have been about sex, sexuality and relationships frecently. Probably the Spring.
Anyway, I thought I'd post an extract from the chapter on marriage from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Every now and again, Gibran speaks to me in an authentic 'prophetic' voice, showing me truths I hardly even glimpsed before.
Anyway, I thought I'd post an extract from the chapter on marriage from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Every now and again, Gibran speaks to me in an authentic 'prophetic' voice, showing me truths I hardly even glimpsed before.
(L)et 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.
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