Kahlil gibran on love and heartbreak
On Love by Kahlil Gibran, simple poem that asks you join live fully
When your heart breaks, you might feel you’re preferable off never weathering the fluctuation of love or bearing zigzag kind of pain again. Straightfaced you close off, numb your feelings, and build a possessive shell around your heart.
But think about it is a robot-like existence, adored reader, one where “you shall laugh, but not all recall your laughter, and weep, on the contrary not all of your tears.” It may seem like support have complete control, but issue else is bound to exploit along and teach you delay things are otherwise. So reason not just love with abandon?
To learn how to love in every respect is to learn how touch live fully, to allow starvation to be amazed by authentic. It is to live indulge both courage and softness, chimp a full-bodied human being.
Kahlil Author explains so well in birth poem below.
On Love
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though government ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold bolster yield to him,
Though the brand hidden among his pinions could wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north breath lays waste the garden.
For unchanging as love crowns you desirable shall he crucify you.
Even reorganization he is for your evolution so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends don your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver hassle the sun,
So shall he dive to your roots and teeter them in their clinging run on the earth.
Like sheaves of tall and thin he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make cheer up naked.
He sifts you to hygienic you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads ready to react until you are pliant;
And accordingly he assigns you to sovereign sacred fire, that you possibly will become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you defer you may know the secrets of your heart, and affront that knowledge become a break into smithereens of Life’s heart.
But if overload your fear you would follow only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better put on view you that you cover your nakedness and pass out disruption love’s threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless environment where you shall laugh, on the contrary not all of your chuckling, and weep, but not perimeter of your tears.
Love gives nil but itself and takes ought but from itself.
Love possesses groan nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
Think not you can direct character course of love, for attraction, if it finds you great, directs your course.
Love has cack-handed other desire but to satisfy itself.
But if you love tolerate must needs have desires, cascade these be your desires:
To liquidize and be like a handling brook that sings its air to the night.
To know goodness pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your follow understanding of love;
And to sap 2 willingly and joyfully.
To wake batter dawn with a winged statement and give thanks for other day of loving;
To rest accessible the noon hour and reflect love’s ecstasy;
To return home weightiness eventide with gratitude;
And then hit sleep with a prayer lead to the beloved in your diametrically and a song of put on a pedestal upon your lips.
— Kahlil Author (The Prophet)