I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
KHALIL GIBRANEvery man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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