Reading: Khalil Gibran - Prophet, Madman, Wanderer (English UK)
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African (General) British (England - East Midlands, Leicester) British (General)Transcript
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This is a reading from a book published by Penguin Books in 1994 and it consists of an abridged version of Khalil Gibran's Prophet Madman Wanderer extract from those three combined in one, and it comes from Page seven, and there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and no not pain in giving. Nor do they seek joy nor give with mindfulness of virtue. They give. As in Yonder Valley, the Myrtle breaths its fragments into space through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes, he smiles upon the earth. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked through understanding and to the open handed. The search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. And in there what you would withhold, all you have shall someday be given. Therefore give. Now that the season of giving maybe yours and not your inheritors. You often say I would give, but only to the deserving the trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture they give That they may live for to withhold is to perish