{"id":10180,"date":"2023-12-26T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/on-love\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:34","slug":"on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/other\/on-love\/","title":{"rendered":"On Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love." <\/div>\n

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And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: <\/div>\n

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When love beckons to you follow him, <\/div>\n

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Though his ways are hard and steep. <\/div>\n

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And when his wings enfold you yield to him, <\/div>\n

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Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. <\/div>\n

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And when he speaks to you believe in him, <\/div>\n

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Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. <\/div>\n

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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. <\/div>\n

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Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, <\/div>\n

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So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. <\/div>\n

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Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself. <\/div>\n

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He threshes you to make you naked. <\/div>\n

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He sifts you to free you from your husks. <\/div>\n

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He grinds you to whiteness. <\/div>\n

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He kneads you until you are pliant; <\/div>\n

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And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast. <\/div>\n

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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. <\/div>\n

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But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, <\/div>\n

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Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, <\/div>\n

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Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. <\/div>\n

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. <\/div>\n

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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; <\/div>\n

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For love is sufficient unto love. <\/div>\n

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When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God." <\/div>\n

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. <\/div>\n

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Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. <\/div>\n

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But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: <\/div>\n

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To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. <\/div>\n

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To know the pain of too much tenderness. <\/div>\n

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To be wounded by your own understanding of love; <\/div>\n

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And to bleed willingly and joyfully. <\/div>\n

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To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; <\/div>\n

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To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; <\/div>\n

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To return home at eventide with gratitude; <\/div>\n

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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. <\/div>\n

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Posted by: wyldwynd<\/p>\n

Notes:  The PROPHET, by Kahlil Gibran, Chapter two titled LOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love." And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}