The Prophet

And knows that yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

And there are those who have little and give it all.
These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,

But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

The righteous is not innoc

e robbed is not blameless in being robbed.

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Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?