Self Knowledge

[Nomad]

Your hearts know in silence the secrets

of the days and nights

But your ears thirst for the sound

of your hearts knowledge

You would know in words that which

you have always known in thought

You would touch with your fingers

the naked body of your dreams

And it is well you should

The hidden well spring of your soul must

needs rise and run murmuring to the sea

And the treasure of your infinite depths

would be revealed to your eyes

But let there be no scales to weigh your

unknown treasure

And seek not the depths of your knowledge

with staff or sounding line

For self is a sea boundless and measureless

Say not I have found the truth but rather

I have found a truth

Say not I have found the path of the soul

Say rather I have met the soul walking

upon my path

For the soul walks upon all paths

The soul walks not upon a line neither

does it grow like a reed

The soul unfolds itself

like a lotus of countless petals



Kahlil Gibran

[CARLA]

Wooo !!! haven't read this in a long time, everytime I do it's just as powerful as the first time.

[theia]

Oh Nomad!!! You've started me off now!! But thank you...:-6

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.



Kahlil Gibran

[theia]

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge...

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man



Kahlil Gibran

[Snooz]

My mom used to read Kahlil Gibran. I'm more the Doctor Seuss school of poetry.

[YZGI]

SnoozeAgain;1390784 wrote: My mom used to read Kahlil Gibran. I'm more the Doctor Seuss school of poetry.


I usually drift offf around the third line of poetry.