Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Kahlil Gibran
Nov 182012
Sep 132012
You give little, when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give. For what are your possessions, but things that you keep and guard for fear that you may need them tomorrow. And what is fear of need but need itself. There are those who give little of the much they have, and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. There are those who give with pain and that pain is their baptism.
And there are those who give and know no pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue. They give as the flowers spread their fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth. And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
http://www.rozanehmagazine.com/allarticles/HomaLyaghat.htm
Aug 302012
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Just as the stone of the fruit must break, so that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And if you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. If you accept the seasons of your heart, as you have always accepted the four seasons, you would watch with serenity the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
http://www.rozanehmagazine.com/allarticles/HomaLyaghat.htm