Photograph by M. M. B.
Sweetness is closer to bitterness than it is to decay, no matter how sweetish its smell.
The evidence of everything on earth, seen and unseen, is spiritual. On entering the invisible city my body is covered by my spirit. Whosoever seeks to cleave the body from the spirit, or the spirit from the body is turning his heart away from the truth. The flower and its fragrance are one; they are blind who deny the colour and the image of the flower, saying that it possesses only a fragrance vibrating in the ether. They are like those, deficient in the scent of smell, to whom flowers are nought but shapes and hues without fragrance.
Everything in creation exists within you, and everything in you exists in creation. You are in border-less touch with the closest things, and, what is more, distance is not sufficient to separate you from things far away.
All things from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, exist within you as equal things.
In one atom are found all the elements of earth. One drop of water contains all the secrets of all the oceans. In one motion of the mind are found all the motions of all the laws of existence.
From the 'Spiritual Sayings' of Kahlil Gibran
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