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[Guest guest]

thank-you for that reminder, that love isn`t what I

want it to be but foremost a purifying power that acts

out of its own will and can hurt bad at time. It is

not that one is abandonned, maybe there are no

abandonnment but one is own.

Patricia

--- billrishel <illieusion a écrit :

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you

may become sacred

bread for God's sacred feast.

 

 

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.

 

 

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace

and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your

nakedness and pass out

of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but

not all of your

laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from

itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

 

Excerpted from Kahlil Gibran on Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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