On Love...
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you
yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth, so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height
and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
so shall he descend to your roots
and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you
unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
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.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
-Kahlil Gibran-
"The Prophet"
Guess I've never noted any words from Kahlil Gibran in this blog of mine. Supposedly, I was just only reading a supposedly 'very accurate' detail about my personal traits over the internet, which dwelled its conclusions based on certain answers I've replied in a test. Now, then, when they talk about going "deeper inside one's underworld", or literally "the realm of Pluto", (yes, it exist, linguistically and literally canonized!) the touchy subject about 'love' comes up.
Now, for the benefit of it, I'm going to throw in just another two quotes from the story "The Broken Wings", which was written by Kahlil Gibran himself.
"It is wrong to think that love comes from companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is achieved in a moment, it will not be created in years or even generations."
"Men, even if they were born free, will remain as slaves of strict laws enacted by their forefatheres, and in that firmanent, which we imagine as as unchanging, is the yielding of today to the will of tomorrow and submission of yesterday, to the will of today."
Thus far, if we read another passage from "The Wisdom of Kahlil Gibran", it is stated that Kahlil Gibran wrote:
"Listen to the woman when she looks at you, but not when she talks to you."
Which, it is justified in the sense that for Kahlil Gibran, it seems that we are asking too much of a woman to express her feelings verbally, as she is usually better qualified to communicate through her looks and affections."
Now I'm asking why am I posting this out, but I guess, there's something worth to share it out, not from my point of view, but rather what some things can offer for the whole world. Like these beautiful quotes.
If you're planning to fall in love, or already in love, and you love having quotes to fall back on as principles, these few ones which I've stated may be of help.
And may they be of help to myself too (which ironically i don't see it coming, since I believe I'll most likely die a confirmed bachelor anyway).
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