Happy Birthday, Jagbir!

[Guest guest]

Happy Birthday Jagbir from Down-Under (Australia)...

 

We are thankful for the torch that you hold high, and we hope and pray that all

your dreams may come true.

 

With Love,

 

Peter and Violet

[Guest guest]

Dear Jagbir,

Hope that you have a lovely birthday, and that each day may be full

of happiness and peace.

Love, Semira

 

 

A VISIT FROM WISDOM

Kahlil Gibran

 

In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood

by my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother

and wiped away my tears, and said : " I have heard

the cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it.

Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light.

Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth. "

 

And I said : " Who am I, Wisdom, and how came

I to this frightening place? What manner of things

are these mighty hopes and these many books and

strange patterns ? What are these thoughts that pass

as doves in flight? And these words composed by

desire and sung by delight, what are they? What are

these conclusions, grievous and joyous, that embrace

my spirit and envelop my heart? And those

eyes which look at me seeing into my depths and

fleeing from my sorrows ? And those voices mourning

my days and chanting my littleness, what are they ?

 

" What is this youth that plays with my desires

and mocks at my longings, forgetful of yesterday's

deeds, rejoicing in paltry things of the moment,

scornful of the morrow's coming?

 

" What is this world that leads me whither I know

not, standing with me in despising? And this earth

that opens wide its mouth to swallow bodies and

lets evil things to dwell on its breast? What is this

creature that is satisfied with the love of fortune,

whilst beyond its union is the pit? Who seeks Life's

kiss whilst Death does smite him, and brings the

pleasure of a minute with a year of repentance, and

gives himself to slumber the while dreams call him?

What is he who flows with the rivers of folly to the

sea of darkness? O Wisdom, what manner of things

are these? "

 

And she answered, saying :

" You would see, human creature, this world

through the eyes of a god. And you would seek to

know the secrets of the hereafter with the thinking

of men. Yet in truth is this the height of folly.

" Go you to the wild places and you shall find

there the bee above the flowers and behold the eagle

swooping down on his prey. Go you into your neighbor's

house and see then the child blinking at the

firelight and his mother busied at her household

tasks. Be you like the bee and spend not the days of

spring looking on the eagle's doing. Be as the child

and rejoice in the firelight and heed not your mother's

affairs. All that you see with your eyes was and

is for your sake.

 

" The many books and the strange patterns and

beautiful thoughts are the shades of those spirits

that came ere you were come. The words that you

do weave are a bond between you and your brothers.

The conclusions, grievous and joyous, are the

seeds that the past did scatter in the field of the

spirit to be reaped by the future. That youth who

plays with your desires is he who will open the door

of your heart to let enter the light. This earth with

the ever open mouth is the savior of your spirit from

the body's slavery. This world which walks with

you is your heart; and your heart is all that you

think that world. This creature whom you see as

ignorant and small is the same who has come from

God's side to learn pity through sadness, and knowledge

by way of darkness. "

 

Then Wisdom put her hand on my burning brow

and said :

" Go then forward and do not tarry, for before

walks perfection. Go, and have not fear of thorns

on the path, for they deem naught lawful save corrupted blood. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, " Violet " <vtubb@b...>

wrote:

> Happy Birthday Jagbir from Down-Under (Australia)...

>

> We are thankful for the torch that you hold high, and we hope and

pray that all your dreams may come true.

>

> With Love,

>

> Peter and Violet