"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be."
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Source: The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul. Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.
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