Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

"Joy and sorrow are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) a poet, writer and artist, was born into a family in Lebanon and immigrated to the US. 

He completed a degree in art and held his first exhibition of drawings in Boston. Yet, his real passion was writing within a diverse scope of themes ranging from love, politics, friendship to work, religion, marriage and so on.

The solid simplicity and prudence in his philosophical prose and poetry brought about a massive success; making him one of the best-selling writers of all time.

His most acclaimed work 'The Prophet'; a book of poetic essays, has sold millions of copies and been translated into many languages. The excerpts in this post are merely an itsy-bitsy demonstration of how miraculously he has touched my heart which 'I humbly expect touches thine, too..'

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love. 

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls... Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone... Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping... And stand together but 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."