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We are all sons and daughters of the Most High, but the Anointed One was His first-born, who dwelt in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and He walked among us and we beheld Him. All this I say that you may inderstand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless. The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

Khalil Gibran#30

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About this quote

What does it mean?
The spirit is described as eternal and able to reach life's secrets where the mind cannot.
In plain terms
Your spirit is eternal and can understand life better than your mind.
What can you take from it?
Trust your spirit to understand life.

Where it applies

  • meditation
  • philosophical inquiry
  • spiritual crisis

Putting it to work

  • cultivate inner silence
  • value intuition over measurement

Questions to consider

  • What does your spirit tell you?
  • How do you measure meaning?

Another view

This distinction between mind and spirit relies on metaphysical assumptions.

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