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December 20, 2003

Words

When I am feeling low, when I ache and hurt, I always look to the words of Gibran Khalil Gibran.

While The Prophet is his best known work, The Wanderer has my favorite entry:

THE PEARL

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."

And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without."

At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Sometimes, the right words can have a very therapeutic effect. Thanks to 'A' for bringing him up last night.

Posted by Samer at December 20, 2003 10:08 PM

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