Self Knowledge
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:50 am
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
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