Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Life by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Author:Neil Douglas-Klotz [Douglas-Klotz, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2017-12-11T23:35:56+00:00

MODESTY

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet

they hide not the unbeautiful.

And though you see in garments the freedom

of privacy, you may find in them a harness and

a chain.

Would that you could meet the sun and the

wind with more of your skin and less of your

raiment. For the breath of life is in the sunlight

and the hand of life is in the wind.

Some of you say, “It is the north wind who

has woven the clothes to wear.”

But shame was his loom, and the softening

of the sinews was his thread. And when his work

was done, he laughed in the forest.

Forget not that modesty is for a shield against

the eye of the unclean.

And when the unclean shall be no more,

what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of

the mind?

And forget not that the earth delights to feel

your bare feet and the winds long to play with

your hair.

K A H L I L G I B R A N ’ S L I T T L E B O O K O F L I F E

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