accepting the seasons of the heart

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses
your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart
may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily
miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less
wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart,
even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass
over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters
of your grief.


—Kahlil Gibran

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image Victor Guntin

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