You Are A Whole That Exists To Live A Whole Life Not Half Life

Khail Gibran Lebanese-American poet and writer already hundred years ago gave us a clear direction how to live happy and fulfilled life. If we only dare.

I dedicate this post to my dear friend Katharina who died recently, and as she lived fully, she also died taking the best of the experience. She gave us such a great example of how to appreciate life. Rest in peace dear One!

Kahil Gibran – Do Not Love Half Lovers

Do not love half lovers.
Do not entertain half friends.
Do not indulge in works of the half talented.
Do not live half a life and do not die a half death.
If you choose silence, then be silent.
When you speak, do so until you are finished.
Do not silence yourself to say something,
And do not speak to be silent.
If you accept, then express it bluntly. Do not mask it.
If you refuse then be clear about it for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance.
Do not accept half a solution.
Do not believe half truths.
Do not dream half a dream.
Do not fantasize about half hopes.
Half a drink will not quench your thirst.
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger.
Half the way will get you no where.
Half an idea will bear you no results.
Your other half is not the one you love.
It is you in another time yet in the same space.
It is you when you are not.
Half a life is a life you didn’t live.
A word you have not said.
A smile you postponed.
A love you have not had.
A friendship you did not know.
To reach and not arrive.
Work and not work.
Attend only to be absent.
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you and they strangers to you.
The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able for you are not half a being.
You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life.

~ Khalil Gibran ~