Silence shared in words
Life, Love, Consciousness
Over the past ten years
I am again and again reminded of the words of Kahlil Gibran
"man cannot reap love until after sad and revealing separation
and bitter patience and desperate hardship
Please comment.
It is true about Kahlil Gibran
but not true about love
Kahlil Gibran
suffered much
despair
anguish
He was
not what you
find him
in his
in his immensely important books
‘The Prophet’
‘The Garden of The Prophet’
and ‘Jesus, the Son of Man’
Kahlil Gibran was just the opposite
And that is true
about almost all the so-called
great
artists
painters, poets
sculptors, musicians, dancers
They are trying to
fulfill their unfulfilled life
in writing poetry
literature
That literature
simply signifies their dream
not their reality
Never meet
any man like Kahlil Gibran
Read his book, The Prophet
it is immensely beautiful
– but avoid Kahlil Gibran himself
because you will be very much disappointed
for the simple reason that you cannot believe
that this man
has produced
one of the classics
of the whole
of history
His book stands like an Everest
but he himself
lies deep down in the dark valley of despair
existential meaninglessness
angry about life
angry with life
angry about everything
And the reason is simple
It is a psychological truth
that whatever you miss in your life
you fulfill in your dreams
Your dreams show
what you are missing in your life
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