I was just watching All in the Family- and caught this scene when Mike reads a passage at his best friend’s wedding ( A very YOUNG and skinny Billy Crystal) in all their bell bottom seventies glory and well the passage, on marriage, made me cry and I felt the need to share:
From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran On Marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
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.
Trying everyday to get it right… what about you?
This is lovely, truly. Though the part about the loaf of bread my husband will use as further evidence that I shouldn’t ask to sample his meals at restaurants.