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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The Prophet (1923)
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
The Prophet (1923)
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
The Prophet (1923)
All these things shall love do unto you
that you may know the secrets of your heart,
and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
The Prophet (1923)
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
The Prophet (1923)
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.
The Prophet (1923)
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.
The Prophet (1923)
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
The Prophet (1923)
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
The Prophet (1923)
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 Prophet (1923)
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.
The Prophet (1923)
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
The Prophet (1923)
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. 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.
The Prophet (1923)
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.
The Prophet (1923)