Healthy Belonging

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.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same

loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of

you be alone.

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver

with the same music.

Give yours hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stands apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's

shadow.

Kahil Gibran, THE PROPHET