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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself

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Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself
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“In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most

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