Khalil Gibran on Friendship (The Prophet)

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On Friendship (The Prophet)
Kahlil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.


When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.


And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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[halflyinghawkbrower]

~♥♥~ Love ~♥♥~

[zainab8981]

"And let your best be of your friend. If he must know the ebb of you tide, let him know its flood also.Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness." How i love these lines of Gibran's work.

[guyNbluejeans]

Beautiful.

[dixieohdixie]

lovely

[Thereisonlythemoment]

"Your Friend is your needs answered" just so love that line. It conjures up almost a wanting, a longing, a desire that we put out into the world. Makes me feel that we truly are to a certain degree in control of what the next part of our Journey holds. Beautiful Words.

[TEARDUCTER]

nothing better than the prophet :)

[guptashaveta133]

too tru .......................beautif­ul n calm

[tristramshandy3]

Montaigne's essay on friendship is amazing- in fact, all of his essays are amazing. Viva Montaigne- my favorite published person from all of human history.

[irajkhodadoost]

I yearn for the friendship all humans across the universe - because we are one in essence and came from the same original parents!

[bunkysp12]

very beautiful indeed, it's great to hear these words being spoken. Thanks for sharing this