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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#even #life #life and death #river #sea

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#daily life #enter #into #life #religion

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#giving #i #i do #me #more

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#behold #being #end #eternity #exist

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#love is #nor #possessed #possesses #sufficient

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#come #difference #dream #fears #follows

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#heart #love #sacrifice #sanctify #temple

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bigger #eye #human #human being #makes