And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. Khalil Gibran spiritual inspirational blood Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran embrace spiritual love Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. Khalil Gibran pride self heart Your house is your larger body. Khalil Gibran body house Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Khalil Gibran stars faith heart Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice. Khalil Gibran voice ears giving Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Khalil Gibran sad strong spiritual All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Khalil Gibran spiritual inspirational life It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body Khalil Gibran slavery body mind Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. Khalil Gibran sowing-seeds sowing doe Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength. Khalil Gibran strong believe jesus If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. Khalil Gibran thrones tyranny firsts In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. Khalil Gibran depth desire lying We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Khalil Gibran seven language I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep. Khalil Gibran silent love-is memories For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Khalil Gibran spiritual inspirational death A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do. Khalil Gibran sunrise lunch morning 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. Khalil Gibran archer arrows children All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Khalil Gibran mind writing fall For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. Khalil Gibran communication space wings
