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from The Drop That Became the Sea by Yunus Emre, translated by Kabir Helminski (1989).

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Egyptian gold and glass necklace. Egypt, 18th Dynasty. Production date: 1340BC-1320BC (circa). Jasper, gold, glazed composition, glass, cornelian. The Trustees of the British Museum (1956,0714*.3)

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Box with chrysanthemum and praying mantis, 16th century. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Carved red and black lacquer; H. 1 1/8 in. (2 cm); Diam. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015 (2015.500.1.47a, b)

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"Build a house for your son; then a place will be created for you, in which you will be. Richly equip your house in the realm of the dead, and effectively outfit your place in the West.

Heed: death counts little for us,

Heed: life counts much for us.

The house of death is for life."

Teaching of Hordjedef

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"You have not gone away dead: you have gone away alive."

"You will not perish; you will not cease. Your identity will endure with people, even as your identity comes to be with the gods."

from Pyramid Text 213 of King Unas (Dynasty 5; Saqqara) from The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James P. Allen (2005).

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"I shall live beyond death, and I shall sing in your ears even after the vast sea-wave carries me back to the vast sea-depth. I shall sit at your board though without a body, and I shall go with you to your fields, a spirit invisible. I shall come to you at your fireside, a guest unseen. Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"For love when love is homesick exhausts time’s measurements and time’s soundings.

Parting is naught but an exhaustion of the mind. Perhaps we have not parted."

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from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"When darkness is upon you, say: ‘This darkness is dawn not yet born; and though night’s travail be full upon me, yet shall dawn be born unto me even as unto the hills."

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from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"The image of the morning sun in a dewdrop is not less than the sun. The reflection of life in your soul is not less than life.

The dewdrop mirrors the light because it is one with light, and you reflect life because you and life are one."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"And forget not that the years which turn seeds to forests, and worms to angels, belong to this Now, all of the years, this very Now."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"Oftentimes you think and speak of night as the season of rest, yet in truth night is the season of seeking and finding.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"It was but yesterday that you were moving with the moving sea, and you were shoreless and without a self. Then the wind, the breath of Life, wove you, a veil of light on her face; then her hand gathered you and gave you form, and with a head held high you sought the heights; her song is still with you. And though you have forgotten your parentage, she will for ever assert her motherhood, and for ever will she call you unto her.

In your wanderings among the mountains and the desert you will always remember the depth of her cool heart. And though oftentimes you will not know for what you long, it is indeed for her vast and rhythmic peace."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"So shall the snow of your heart melt when your Spring is come, and thus shall your secret run in streams to seek the river of life in the valley. And the river shall enfold your secret and carry it to the great sea." —Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"My comrades and my beloved, be bold and not meek; be spacious and not confined; and until my final hour and yours be indeed your greater self."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"My mariners and my friends, it were wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand. Yet I would have you know that we are the breath and the fragrance of God. We are God, in leaf, in flower, and oftentimes in fruit." —Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"Again I bid you to speak not so freely of God, who is your All, but speak rather and understand one another, neighbor unto neighbor, a god unto a god."

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).

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"Too often do you sing God, the Infinite, and yet in truth you hear not the song. Would that you might listen to the song-birds, and to the leaves that forsake the branch when the wind passes by, and forget not, my friends, that these sing only when they are separated from the branch!"

—Kahlil Gibran

from The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1934).