Beyond the poetic surface Gibran explains such ideas as the necessity of living in the present moment, ideas of existentialism and also non-duality [the non separation of everything] in a very simplistic, yet effective way. ... Sometimes people have gone through something like a traumatic 2 event that they can't let go of or a achievement that they feel defines them. ... Existentialists take the attitude that it is what you do while here th...

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