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“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance
between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a
moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from
one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and
dance together and be joyous , but let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings
of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but
not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And
stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart.
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
Khalil Gibran
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