Khalil Gibran Secret Quotations

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.