Day 264 – Street Sign
September 23, 2012
“Pleasure is a freedom-song, but it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, but it is not their fruit. It is a depth calling unto a height, but it is not the deep nor the high. […] Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song. And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of your heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing. [...] For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone; seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful than pleasure. Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?” (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1923.)
