Timeless Thoughts on Love | Inspirational Life Lessons
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1062 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts on Love. Edited and adapted from Kahlil Gibran’s book The Prophet.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: When love beckons to you, follow it — though its ways are hard and steep. And when its wings enfold you, yield to it — though its hidden sword may wound you. And when love speaks to you, believe in it — though its voice may shatter your dreams, as the winter wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you, so shall it crucify you. Even as it is for your growth, so it is also for your pruning. Even as love ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that shimmer in the sun, so shall it descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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| 1:22.6 | Inspirational. Welcome to the inspirational living podcast. |
| 1:40.3 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book the prophet by Khalil Gibran, |
| 1:46.4 | published in 1922. |
| 1:55.1 | When love beckons to you, follow it, though its ways are hard and steep. And when its wings enfold you, yield to it, |
| 2:05.6 | though its hidden sword may wound you. And when love speaks to you, believe in it, though its voice |
| 2:14.8 | may shatter your dreams, as the winter wind lays waste the garden. |
| 2:20.3 | For even as love crowns you, so shall it crucify you. |
| 2:26.3 | Even as it is for your growth, so it is also for your pruning. |
| 2:32.3 | Even as love ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that |
| 2:37.4 | shimmer in the sun, so shall it descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. |
| 2:45.6 | Like sheaves of corn love gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. |
| 2:53.6 | It sifts you to free you from your husks. |
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