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Extract from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (On Marriage)
Long before co-dependency and enmeshment entered our vocabulary, Kahlil Gibran wrote poetically of the need to maintain some space in relationships.


extract from "The Prophet"
by Kahlil Gibran

But 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.



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