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Back on 27 September 2006, during the course of a Living
Ethics Discussion about "What experience of love have you
had that strengthened you?", Beth shared the following verse:
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.
Kahlil Gibran
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