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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Visit From Wisdom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood<br>By my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother<br>And wiped away my tears, and said : 'I have heard<br>The cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it.<br>Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light.<br>Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I said : 'Who am I, Wisdom, and how came<br>I to this frightening place? What manner of things<br>Are these mighty hopes and these many books and<br>Strange patterns ? What are these thoughts that pass<br>As doves in flight? And these words composed by<br>Desire and sung by delight, what are they? What are<br>These conclusions, grievous and joyous, that embrace <br>My spirit and envelop my heart? And those<br>Eyes which look at me seeing into my depths and<br>Fleeing from my sorrows ? And those voices mourning <br>My days and chanting my littleness, what are they ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is this youth that plays with my desires<br>And mocks at my longings, forgetful of yesterday's<br>Deeds, rejoicing in paltry things of the moment,<br>Scornful of the morrow's coming?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is this world that leads me whither I know<br>Not, standing with me in despising? And this earth<br>That opens wide its mouth to swallow bodies and<br>Lets evil things to dwell on its breast? What is this<br>Creature that is satisfied with the love of fortune,<br>Whilst beyond its union is the pit? Who seeks Life's<br>Kiss whilst Death does smite him, and brings the<br>Pleasure of a minute with a year of repentance, and<br>Gives himself to slumber the while dreams call him?<br>What is he who flows with the rivers of folly to the<br>Sea of darkness? O Wisdom, what manner of things<br>Are these?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she answered, saying :<br>'You would see, human creature, this world<br>Through the eyes of a god. And you would seek to<br>Know the secrets of the hereafter with the thinking<br>Of men. Yet in truth is this the height of folly.<br>'Go you to the wild places and you shall find<br>There the bee above the flowers and behold the eagle<br>Swooping down on his prey. Go you into your neighbor's <br>House and see then the child blinking at the<br>Firelight and his mother busied at her household<br>Tasks. Be you like the bee and spend not the days of<br>Spring looking on the eagle's doing. Be as the child<br>And rejoice in the firelight and heed not your Mother's affairs. All that you see with your eyes was And is for your sake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The many books and the strange patterns and<br>Beautiful thoughts are the shades of those spirits<br>That came ere you were come. The words that you<br>Do weave are a bond between you and your brothers. <br>The conclusions, grievous and joyous, are the<br>Seeds that the past did scatter in the field of the<br>Spirit to be reaped by the future. That youth who<br>Plays with your desires is he who will open the door<br>Of your heart to let enter the light. This earth with<br>The ever open mouth is the savior of your spirit from<br>The body's slavery. This world which walks with<br>You is your heart; and your heart is all that you<br>Think that world. This creature whom you see as<br>Ignorant and small is the same who has come from<br>God's side to learn pity through sadness, and knowledge<br>By way of darkness.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Wisdom put her hand on my burning brow<br>And said:<br>'Go then forward and do not tarry, for beforeWwalks Perfection. Go, and have not fear of thorns<br>On the path, for they deem naught lawful save Corrupted blood.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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