The Prophet

I read Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet to nourish my spirit. I was not disappointed.

On marriage, he says:
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.

On love he says:
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

These thoughts are now a cliche, but they are true. There was a time when my wife and drank from each other's cup, but there really was nothing to sate the thirst. We were both empty and thirsty. Only when we overcame our existential angst with the fortuitous arrival of the fruit of our union did we begin filling our own cups; only then did we live life instead of wallowing in despair. Only then did love become sufficient unto love.