It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Khalil Gibran dream heart night But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more. Khalil Gibran autumn wind memories He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection. Khalil Gibran angel evil life Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit. Khalil Gibran ocean mother children You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. Khalil Gibran turns shadow sun The silence of the envious is too noisy. Khalil Gibran noisy envious silence If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. Khalil Gibran thrones truth matter The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. Khalil Gibran heart appreciation people Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Khalil Gibran flames passion spiritual Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. Khalil Gibran judgement may giving I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure." Khalil Gibran learning writing men You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Khalil Gibran prayer joy needs Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. Khalil Gibran coal definitions jewels Remembrance is a form of meeting. Khalil Gibran remembrance meetings form Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Khalil Gibran gratitude yoga thank-you 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 Khalil Gibran storm together laughing 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. Khalil Gibran love son religion My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Khalil Gibran loneliness spiritual men The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea. Khalil Gibran loneliness sea feelings For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance. Khalil Gibran breathing rivers wind
