Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran on Self-Knowledge

Fairy in the Woods

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's 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.

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 souls walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like
a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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