“My enemy said to me, Love your enemy. And I obeyed him and loved myself.” — Kahlil Gibran | V2Melody

“My enemy said to me, Love your enemy. And I obeyed him and loved myself.”

The enemy as the self one must first accept · Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran

About Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

6 January 1883–10 April 1931

Kahlil Gibran, born on 6 January 1883 in the mountain town of Bsharri, in what is now northern Lebanon, and dead on 10 April 1931 in New York City, became one of the most widely read literary figures of the twentieth century. He was a poet, prose writer, essayist, painter, draftsman, cultural critic, and immigrant…

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“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.”

Nature as writing that we destroy to write our own void · Sand and Foam, 1926

“There is no deeper desire than the Desire of being revealed. We all want the little light in us be Taken from under the bushel.”

The hunger to be known rather than hidden · Letter to Mary Haskell, 10 November 1911

“You have the great gift of understanding, beloved Mary. You are a life-giver. You are like the Great Spirit, who befriends man not only to share his life, but to add to it.”

Friendship that enlarges rather than merely accompanies · Letter to Mary Haskell