<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430845" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Almitra spoke, saying, 'We would ask now of Death.' <br>And he said: <br>You would know the secret of death. <br>But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? <br>The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. <br>If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. <br>For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. <br>In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; <br>And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. <br>Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. <br>Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. <br>Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king? <br>Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling? <br>For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? <br>And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? <br>Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. <br>And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. <br>And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430845" data-title="On Death de Khalil Gibran" data-description="Then Almitra spoke, saying, 'We would ask now of Death.' And he said: You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil th..."></div> </div> </div>

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