Love one another, but make not a bond
of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul.
Fill each other’s cup, but drink not
from one cup. Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be
joyous, but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a lute are
alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each
other’s keeping. For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near
together. For the pillars of the temple stand apart.
And the oak tree and the cypress tree
grow not in each other’s shadow.
-Khalil Gibran
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