I read Kahil Gibran long ago, but this continues to inspire me to get out and do things:
.... And tell me, people of OrphaIese, what have you in these houses? And what is it you guard with fastened doors?
Have you peace, the quiet urge that reveals your power?
Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?
Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?
Tell me, have you these in your houses?
Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host and then a master?
Kahil Gibran.
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Re: Getting my @ss off the couch!
Excellent Quote! I hijacked part of it to be my new signature!Harlen wrote:...Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host and then a master?
[/i]Kahil Gibran.
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"...Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host and then a master?"
Kahil Gibran.
Kahil Gibran.
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Re: Getting my @ss off the couch!
Wow Harlen. Such amazing words, thanks so much for posting them. Seems I'll be borrowing them too.
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I don't know how I could have forgotten how beautiful Gibran's writing is. Timeless. I will need to go to my shelf.
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I like my couch, but I can't seem to find anyone to carry it up the hill to camp.. And the big flat screen.. And the generator.. And the dish..
It was a great quote, though..
It was a great quote, though..
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Thanks for posting this Harlen. Food for thought.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
Hello "Oldhiker,"
And that favorite of yours was well worth looking up again- Thank you.
Our boys playing "in leaves no steps had trodden black."
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
Hello "Oldhiker,"
And that favorite of yours was well worth looking up again- Thank you.
Our boys playing "in leaves no steps had trodden black."
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