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I suppose these essays/poems could be summed up as follows: a tear for this life and a smile for the next. The writing is mostly about being bound by matter, and being free through spirit. Overall, these are nicely stated, accessible words, with rich religious imagery (“Behold the sun rising from out of darkness”) for those who believe in a divine world, drawing from various religious strains of thought, including Plato. “And so,” Gibran writes, “the spirit become separated from the greater spirit to move in the world of matter and pass as a cloud over the mountain of sorrow and the plains of joy to meet the breeze of death and return when it came.” A secular version might say that we come from impersonal Energy, become matter, and then we die, dissipate, and return to energy.