When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

Profession: Poet
Nationality: Lebanese


When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. Khalil Gibran

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As ones gifts increase his friends decrease.

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.

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

If indeed you must be candid be candid beautifully.

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, – then let your heart say in awe, God moves in passion.

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. Even those who limp go not backward. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.

The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Love is the only freedom in this world, because it elevates the soul to a lofty station that cannot be attained by the laws and customs of human beings or conquered by the laws of nature.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.