“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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Welcome! I am a lawyer turned freelance writer, essayist, and editor. On staff at Literary Mama and the co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal, The Sunlight Press, my essays and reported work have appeared in The Washington Post, The Lily, Saveur, Civil Eats, Brain, Child, ESPN and elsewhere. I am currently at work on a memoir on grief and culture and how it provides perspective on life’s ordinary graces. I invite you to appreciate the ordinary with me. I hope my daily practice of seeing the magic in the mundane helps you celebrate and find more of these moments in your life too.
I’ve never read this before. It is a most beautiful quote.
Rudri love it! Still don’t see a share button on your page though? 🙂
Love this. Thank you.
I love that about spaces in the togetherness. And I love the opposite too – togetherness in the spaces.
What a beautiful quote.
Wonderful quote, Rudri! Very wise.
Beautiful !
Wonderful! Had never seen it either.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
Oh… I have never seen this. It’s going right in to my quote book! Thank you for sharing…
This is perfect Rudri.