Khalil Gibran's Thoughts on Love and Marriage

Love is in the air whether you like it or not...whether you are alone or clinging to those warm loving arms of somebody else legal or illegal (LOL). But isn't it love is always right? For love can't be wrong but lovers do. And to console those who haven't been hit by Cupid yet, don't worry love can be expressed in so many ways and forms - all to your desire wahahahahaha.

I am actually in the middle of moving out - packing, report writing but something is poking my fingers to post something in my blog anything about love. Damn it - I've been out for a week from my blog and I hope I can catch up from my absence.

So I decided to share with you some of my favorite lines of Khalil Gibran's masterpiece (The Prophet). I have been reading his book for the nth time and everytime his words are very potent that it always give me chills down to the very core of me. I am always high with his thoughts.

So here they are:

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 cronws 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 treshes 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 think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

On Marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a movign sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

So, let's just wait and see the works of love. Indeed, it moves in mysterious ways. Stay happy guys and happy valentines day everyone.