On Love (from "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran) (Autoplay)

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EXCERPT FROM “The Prophet” by Khalil Ghibran MUSIC “Həyat Davam Edir” by Hüseyn Abdullayev http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-6nT153Ek CLIPARTS Florida Center for Instructional Technology University of South Florida http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

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hen love beckons to you though his ways are hard and steep.

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nd when his wings enfold you though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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nd when he speaks to you though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

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or even as love crowns you, Even as he is for your growth, so shall he crucify you. so is he for your pruning.

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ven 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.

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ike sheaves of corn, he gathers you unto himself.

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e 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; nd then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

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ll these things shall love do unto you and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

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ut if in your fear you would into the seasonless world better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing floor, where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, but not all of your tears. and weep, seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is

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ove gives naught but itself, Love possesses not, and takes naught but from itself. nor would it be possessed;

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hen you love “God is in my heart,” but rather, you should not say,

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nd think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy directs your course.

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ut if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: o melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

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o know the pain of too much tenderness. o be wounded by your own understanding of love; and to bleed willingly and joyfully.

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o wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; o rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;

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o return home at eventide and then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. with gratitude;