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Old 03-07-2009, 02:55 AM #1
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Default A friend who is far away...
Kahlil must knew that the internet was going to happen when he wrote this...

I think about all the supports in these forums...how true...

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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Kahlil Gibran
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Oh, I love Khalil Gibran. I carried a little book around with me for ever so long.

I love the one about children too... it means a lot to me at this moment in time.

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And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
etc., etc., etc.,
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/13488-Kha...ren-Chapter-IV

Speaking of mountains... You know that old saying about making it to the top of the mountain? Well, I figure once we think you've reached the top of the mountain we need to keep climbing... not go down the other side.

Alone alone across the sea,
Alone forever I shall be ~ Lara circa '99
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Lara - I still have the books
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Moi, I love that saying. I made a slide for a friend, I put the saying on one of my favorite artists Jim Warren prints.



Another favorite, by Helen Keller

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Thank you all for making my day. Somehow, someone here always manages to bring me out no matter how dark it gets.... *a toast to always remaining close in heart and spirit.
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Lara and wren, I have "a tear and a smile" and I love it....

I read the Prophet many years ago...

do you guys care to recommend anything else? (like a best of collection or something?)

nik and mist, glad you guys liked it...I find Kahlil....inspirational....and calm....

makes me want to go and do some yoga now, but I think I'll just eat some yogurt...LOL

PS, Lara, but the mountain top will end at the summit...and coming down makes a good circle of a complete journey.


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I've had my "Prophet" since 1972 ... it was a graduation gift. To this day, I reach for that book. Its never far.

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btw, nik,

that's beautiful what you made! And love that HK quote...awesome...

Add a lot, there IS something about Kahlil, isn't it?? I really love his artwork also...
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PS, Lara, but the mountain top will end at the summit...and coming down makes a good circle of a complete journey.
Depends which way you look at it. In my mind, the "mountain" is purely a metaphore. Logically the journey ends at the summit of a real mountain, but I figure if you have been strong enough to climb there in life's journey, then you have the strength to look beyond that particular summit and climb even higher.

I have heard that the journey down from places like Everest (not metaphorical mountains ) is actually more difficult than the journey up. hmmnn
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do you guys care to recommend anything else?
*thinking. Maybe the Rubayat of Omar Khayyam?
http://www.okonlife.com/

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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
--Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
(trans. by Edward FitzGerald)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/khayyam.htm
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