But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure.
("The Prophet")
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Khalil Gibran
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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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.
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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?
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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