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Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king? Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink form the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
– Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), a Lebanese artist, poet and writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book, The Prophet – in which the quotation above appears. It consists of a series of philosophical essays, written in poetic prose, dealing with topics such as love, marriage, freedom, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion and death.
