Oasis
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
~Kahlil Gibran
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Wonderful Sentiments!!!
Is that you on the tracks?
~ Alex
Alex,
A writer is always on the tracks. ;D
No it is not me.
to find the oasis in the desert of doubt is the hard part but can be done
Good Sunday evening to you, Alexys.
I agree with the first part, not so sure about the second...
Faith has always come to me through understanding, and understanding through wiser thinking...
But then epiphany - maybe that is faith's gift and the rest follows...
(glad it isn't you on those railroad tracks. shudder...)
Kahlil Gibran was a visionary and his words are his legacy.
Gibran also said, 'All that spirits desire, spirits attain.'
Heart-stopping.. Very meaningful.
Robert,
Better to find an oasis in the desert than a desert in an oasis.
Annie,
Happy Monday!
We never have to think about faith, it just IS. To understand it is not to think about it, faith overrides thought.
Blessings.
Liara,
I almost selected that quote for this post.
Leidyundercover,
It is definitely something to think about.
Thanks for that info or commentary about Kahlil Gibran, Liara. I'm seeing him in a different light now than when we were studying about his "The Prophet" way back in college.
And I can't remeber that he has a quote written like that.
"A writer is always on the tracks."
I agree. 'Cause writers probe deeply in their Souls. Always in search of truth and sporadically enlightened by certain moments, experience and our surrounding nature.
Comparing doubt as a feeling of pain . . . too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Ah, such a hyperbole, simile . . . hmmm, it seems like I have forgotten terms in literature. As I've always said, there's always this constant duality in everything. For if there is no doubt, how can one know or experience faith.
Amber,
I read Gibran's The Prophet as a teen and never looked back. He was among my first instances of enlightenment.
A writer probes the tracks of the mind and is never sure when the train will come, but we keep going until we don't see anything in front of us and it is all behind us.
Hyperbole is exaggeration. A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.
Thanks for reminding me the definition of the two. Well then both are a combination of simile and metaphor. Doubt and faith are unlike and yet they co-exist.
Amber,
You get to go to the head of the class. :D
That's a lovely quote.
We are so lucky to have you !
Uber,
Thank you. I am the lucky one though for having all of you.
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