Discover the Well of JOY!!
By Sami MERLYN Rose
As a young man of 15 I turned to my father’s library and found THE PROPHET by Kahlil Gibran. It became my favorite book of the year and is still on my list of top ten favorites. Gibran’s comments that “the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears” and “The deeper your sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain” made me feel that the suffering I felt as a teenager was only increasing my potential for joy!
And so it is, on planet earth, LIFE IS AN EBB AND FLOW. We have day and we have night, we have black and we have white, male and female, good and evil, spirit and matter, rain and sun—our world is ruled by the balance of duality!
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