Khalil Quotes

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• I have met the soul walking upon my path.
• Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if…
• I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
• All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it…
• The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and…
• I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and…
• I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own…
• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
• Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism…
• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is…
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing…
• The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.
• Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
• In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.
• I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
• I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
• Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
• We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
• What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

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