excerpts from Gibran Khalil Gibran - Sand and Foam

[Guest guest]

On my way to the Holy City I met another pilgrim and I asked him, "Is this

indeed the way to the Holy City?"

And he said, "Follow me, and you will reach the Holy City in a day and a night."

And I followed him. And we walked many days and many nights, yet we did not

reach the Holy City.

And what was to my surprise he became angry with me because he had misled me.

 

 

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My friend, you and I shall remain strangers unto life,

And unto one another, and each unto himself,

Until the day when you shall speak and I shall listen

Deeming your voice my own voice;

And when I shall stand before you

Thinking myself standing before a mirror.

 

 

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Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a

garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of

Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, "My friend, I fear we shall

never, never agree."

 

 

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Gibran Khalil Gibran - Sand and Foam