Self-Knowledge

Text by Khalil Gibran Mona Asadi

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Adagio

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Your hearts know in si lence the se crets of the days and the nights but your

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ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that

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which you've al ways known in thought. You would touch with your fin gers the

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na ked bo dy of your dreams. And it is well you should.

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16 Con moto

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The hid den well spring of your soul must needs ri se and run

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mur muring to the sea; And the trea sure of your in fi nite depths would

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be re vealed toyour eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your un known

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trea sure; For self is a sea bound lessand mea sure less. Say

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31 a tempo

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not, 'I have found the truth' but ra ther 'I have found a truth.' Say not, 'I have found the

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path of the soul.' But 'I have met the soul walk ing 'pon my path.' For the

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so ul walks up on all paths. The soul un folds its self, like a

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lo tus of count less pe tals.

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