
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
β Kahlil Gibran
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THE LIBRARY
Words to return to, with the context behind them.

To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.

You are good when you are one with yourself.

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.

It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

And to love life through labour is to be intimate with lifeβs inmost secret.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life--while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.