Debt Consolidation

A Message For Us - Reflections of a Member

Posted on: June 05, 2008
Written by: UWSA Staff
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 06:59:15 -0600 From: Claude Van Horn To: planb@uwsa.com Subject: Wisdom of the past. Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran lived from the 1880s to the early 1930s. He wrote many things, the most famous of which is a book called "THE PROPHET". There was a second book, called "THE GARDEN OF THE PROPHET" which contains this caution to the nations to the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- My friends and my roadfellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conquerer bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. ------------------------------------------------------- Quite a picture, isn't it? Van!! =========================================================== Claude Van Horn | UWSA member. GO player van@wordsys.com | Voice Mail - Dictation cvanhorn@wyoming.com | Internet Instruction TheVanHorn@aol.com | Philosopher - good guy. and other assorted addresses. | http://www.csn.net/~van/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Not an expert -- but I play one on the Internet. ===========================================================