This is not surprising given the staggering sales figures behind “Gibran’s masterpiece”. I even spotted one on an inspirational poster in someone’s office. Here and there I started coming across more and more Gibran quotes. I later found out it comes from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. It was beautiful and seemed like sound advice to me and potentially a decent slogan for His and Hers coffee mugs. Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup… Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. The soon-to-be married couple were exchanging vows. In the summer of 2011, I was sitting in a packed church. It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying. – Marcel Proust
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