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Venus
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posted June 11, 2012 07:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
¯ Khalil Gibran

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posted June 11, 2012 07:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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, and 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.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Children

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Venus
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posted June 11, 2012 08:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Had Beirut not been my city I would have chosen it to be
Gubran K. Gubran

a letter to the lebanese:

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Let me tell you who are the children of my Lebanon.

They are farmers who would turn the fallow field into garden and grove.

They are the shepherds who lead their flocks through the valleys to be fattened for your table meat and your woolens.

They are the vine-pressers who press the grape to wine and boil it to syrup.

They are the parents who tend the nurseries, the mothers who spin the silken yarn.

They are the husbands who harvest the wheat and the wives who gather the sheaves.

They are the builders, the potters, the weavers and the bell-casters.

They are the poets who pour their souls in new cups.

They are those who migrate with nothing but courage in their hearts and strength in their arms but who return with wealth in their hands and a wreath of glory upon their heads.

They are the victorious wherever they go and loved and respected wherever they settle.

They are the ones born in huts but who died in palaces of learning.

These are the children of Lebanon; they are the lamps that cannot be snuffed by the wind and the salt which remains unspoiled through the ages.

They are the ones who are steadily moving toward perfection, beauty, and truth.

What will remain of your Lebanon after a century? Tell me! Except bragging, lying and stupidity? Do you expect the ages to keep in its memory the traces of deceit and cheating and hypocrisy? Do you think the atmosphere will preserve in its pockets the shadows of death and the stench of graves?

Do you believe life will accept a patched garment for a dress? Verily, I say to you that an olive plant in the hills of Lebanon will outlast all of your deeds and your works; that the wooden plow pulled by the oxen in the crannies of Lebanon is nobler than your dreams and aspirations.

I say to you, while the conscience of time listened to me, that the songs of a maiden collecting herbs in the valleys of Lebanon will outlast all the uttering of the most exalted prattler among you. I say to you that you are achieving nothing. If you knew that you are accomplishing nothing, I would feel sorry for you, but you know it not.

You have your Lebanon and I have my Lebanon.

Gibran Khalil Gibran

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posted June 11, 2012 08:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Lovely Venus. Written so long ago and Gibran`s truth unfolds a little each day; blending into years


"These are the children of Lebanon; they are the lamps that cannot be snuffed by the wind and the salt which remains unspoiled through the ages."

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posted June 11, 2012 09:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by juniperb:
[B]Lovely Venus. Written so long ago and Gibran`s truth unfolds a little each day; blending into years



in ways i cannot comprehend !

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posted June 11, 2012 12:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

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posted June 15, 2012 05:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Love&Light     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Three Cheers for Kahlil Gibran and (((((Venus))))).

Hi! Your thread has inspired me to post Rumi. So here i go.....to open a new thread.

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posted June 15, 2012 06:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Love&Light     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
REPENTANCE

On a moonless night a man entered into his neighbour's garden and stole the largest melon he could find and brought it home.

He opened it and found it still unripe.

Then behold a miracle!

The man's conscience woke and smote him with remorse; and he repented having stolen the melon.

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posted June 15, 2012 06:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Venus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
would he have felt remorse had the melon been ripe?

L&L, the Rumi quotes are amazing

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posted June 15, 2012 01:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Love&Light     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thats the point.

Yes Rumi is great. I intend to post more. Lets see.

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