Make Not a Bond of Love - Set Your Mates Free

If they love you, they will love you even more.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let rather be a moving SEA between the SHORES of your souls.(Khalil Gibran)


In other words, mates do not try to control your spouses. Husbands and wives give your spouses their freedom. If they love you, they will love you even more. If they don't love you and leave, well, they did not love you anyway!

• 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.
  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.
  (From "The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran)
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