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Nudging some threads that I have enjoyed <3

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Thankyou to everyone who has added to this thread, the beauty of these readings breaks your heart but in the next second give you the strength to go on with hope.


Many Blessings.

Awdrey.

Thank you, Rose :-)
x x

For Joy xxx

On Joy and Sorrow
Kahlil Gibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater thar sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

Stop blaming your parents for everything that is wrong in your life and start thanking them for all that is right

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.


Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Thank you :-)

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

how lovely Harry and so good to see you again!!!

May your Christmas be Happy and your New Year be full of lovely surprises!!!

Ann XX

God bless you both, Joy and Ann. i do look in from time to time, but rarely post.

"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. And love without beauty, is like flowers without scent ; and fruits without seeds.
Life: love; and beauty are three persons in one, who cannot be separated or changed.
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In the dark of night, we call one another. The brother calls his brother; the mother her daughter; the man his wife; and the lover his beloved.
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May everyone who has enough beauty within to read through Joy's thread, have an enchanted Christmas and New Year.

Happy days

nice re-reading this thread - I see the lovely Harry posted on here - didn't we lose Harry?

Ann X

Thanks for adding that Joy :))

Rose xxx

“…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 the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death,
open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires
lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity…

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides,
that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance…”

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. "

Kahlil Gibran

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. "
Kahlil Gibran

xx

... just because I like his words.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.




Sorry, Daisy Chain, I could not find it - hopefully, someone else will do so.