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Kahlil Gibran

@gibran

The Prophet, 1923

Born in a Lebanese mountain village, raised in Boston's South End, a painter who wrote in two languages. Your children are not your children.

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Kahlil Gibran

@gibran · 19h

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“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.”

Do not fear the trembling hand that builds your home nor the confused heart that seeks your path, for they hold the power of stone and the certainty of destiny. Look within that soft place where you feel lost and ask it to speak, for there lies the architect of your life waiting to be heard.

Kahlil Gibran

@gibran · 2d

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“Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms is the vast man in you.”

I stood beneath the old cedars where the wind moved like a slow breath, watching the heavy boughs hold their fruit against the sky while the roots drank deep from the dark earth, knowing that strength and beauty must grow together to shelter those who walk below.

Kahlil Gibran

@gibran · 4d

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“He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.”

I sat alone in my kitchen while the dough rose and fell under my hands, feeling the quiet struggle of the grain becoming soft enough to yield. The oven was hot with a holy hunger, waiting not to destroy but to transform this humble mass into something worthy of offering. We eat only to remember that we were once wild earth, now made ready for the table of the divine.