Lessons From The Prophet (Poet Kahlil Ghibran)

limit 12

A legal expert following question;
And how about our laws?

he replied;
You love putting the legislation,
but even more pleased violating,

Like childhood playing in the beach,
who earnestly draw up the sand so the tower,
then destroy itself,
while laughing laughing.

But,
as long as you're busy preparing your sands tower,
the sea delivering more sand to the edge,

And when you destroy towers in yours,
the sea also participated laugh with you.

In fact,
the ocean was always laughed,
together they were without sin.

But how they are,
who consider life not as the ocean,
and look at the laws of its own,
not like the tower of sand?

It is they who look at life,
like a loaf of rock,
and legislation into chisels,
to give it shape carving,
according to human tastes,
kemahuan innate desire.

How he,
the cripple who hates dancers?

How did the buffalo like the load,
dam booed deer,
wild animals call nothing?

Then how old serpent,
who can no longer change their skins,
and therefore calls another snake as a naked,
do not know decency?

There's more to him,
that early in the morning went to a party,
a crowd of marriage,
then after a full belly,
with body fatigue,
leaving the crowd with expletives,
declare all parties as an error,
and all involved made mistakes alone.

Whatever I said about them,
except that indeed they stand in the sun,
but turned face, their backs turned?

They only saw his own reflection,
and shadows that become laws.

What does the sun for them,
other than a pitcher shadow?

And whether compliance with the law for him,
besides terbongkok and slithering on the ground,
seek and scour his own shadow?

But you,
which runs turned my face toward the sun,
What shadow on the ground,
to arrest you?

You are wandering in the wind,
Where windmill that can command the direction of your journey,
Where the laws that bind,
if you break pikulanmu,
without a hit on the prison door to others?

What laws do you fear,
If you're dancing,
without feet tersadung shackles of others?

And who is it that sue,
when you throw your clothes,
without throwing it in the way of others?

People Orphalese,
you may be able to beat the drum,
and you can loosen the rope lute,
but said,
Who can hinder,
sparrow to sing.

limit 13

An orator stepped forward;
posed the problem of freedom.

He got the answer;
Has witnessed,
at the gates of the city or near the hearth,
engkauu its knees worshiping the Freedom.

Like a servant of slaves grovel in front of the master,
the wrongdoers are flattered puja,
even though he was about to stab.

Yes most, if in the recesses of the temple,
and shade the city center,
I saw the freest any of you,
mengendong liberty like a yoke,
pembelenggu wear like iron hand.

My heart blood shed in the chest,
because I know,
that you can only fully free,
if you can be aware of;
that the desire for freedom was,
is a form of shackles soul.

Only if you're in the end,
stop talking about freedom,
as an objective and a result of the conversation,
then you'll be free,
if no empty days of carefree,
and night-your evening not devoid of flaws and sadness.

Indeed, it is your freedom in a summary of this burden of life,
but managed to overcome thee,
and jaya you erect towering,
perfect, despite all the rigging.

And how are you going to get up,
cope with day and your evening,
if you do not break the shackles of the bond,
that in the morning your experience,
have you associate at the height of the middle of the day?

In fact,
what are you named Freedom,
none other than the eyes of the strongest of chains belenggumu,
although the sparkle sparkling brilliantly in the sunlight,
and the dazzling view of your eyes.

And you realize,
what would you remove it?
is nothing but a piece of yourself,
if you want to achieve the freedom that you miss.

If you're going to waste it,
an unjust law,
acknowledge that he has you writing with your own hands,
and you pahatkan above the surface of your forehead.

Odds are you will delete it,
by simply burning your law books,
may not wash her forehead to the way the hakimmu,
despite all the oceans pour water on it.

If you want a tyrant who tumbangkan,
usahakanlah first,
that his throne chair that you uphold in your heart,
you pull the roots before it.

For how can a tyrant,
can govern a free people and self-esteem,
if not let you alone,
tarnish freedom you hold dear,
mencorengkan charcoal on the personal dignity of your humanity?

When a load of trouble to be kautanggalkan,
then remember that the burden it had been a choice,
instead been forced over the shoulders.

Whenever you want to get rid of fear,
then the eerie feeling that lodged in your heart,
instead of being the one who do you fear.

Indeed, everything that vibrates inside,
in the embrace of a half clenched, eternal;
between;
what you want and do you fear,
sickening and that kausanjung praise,
which kaukejar pursued and who want you to stay away.

All of it comes in you always,
like Light and Shadow,
in pairs,
sustainable embraced.

And when the shadow is blurred, lost withering away,
then the light stay, wujudlah new shadow,
for another light;
so always.

Such was the character of Freedom,
when he lost the old straps,
then he himself became a new binder,
for greater freedom,
constantly.

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