FAITH IS AN OASIS - KAHLIL GIBRAN

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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Lebanese-American Artist, Poet, and Writer

The third best-selling poet of all time,

behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

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"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."

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"Faith is an oasis in the heart

which can never be reached by

the caravan of thinking."
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  "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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  "Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert."

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 "Nor shall derision prove powerful against those  who listen to humanity or those who follow  in the footsteps of divinity,   for they shall live forever. Forever."

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RIVERS IN THE DESERT

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I am about to do a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.

The wild animals will honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches;

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert, to give drink

to my chosen people,

the people whom I formed for myself

so that they might declare my praise.

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Isaiah 43:19-21

(All images are from the Rio Grande River

in New Mexico.)

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DESERTS OF VAST ETERNITY

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“But at my back I always hear,

Time's winged chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie,

Deserts of vast eternity”

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Andrew Marvel

17th Century English Metaphysical Poet
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