DALAM MEMBERI DAN MENGAMBIL
Karya: Kahlil Gibran

Suatu saat hiduplah seorang pria yang memiliki satu lembah jarum. Dan suatu hari Ibu Yesus datang kepadanya dan berkata, “Teman, pakaian anakku sobek dan aku membutuhkan jarum untuk menisiknya sebelum ia pergi ke kuil. Apakah kau mau memberiku sebatang jarum?”

Namun pria itu tidak memberikan jarum, ia memberi wanita itu buku pelajaran tentang memberi dan mengambil untuk dibawa kepada anaknya sebelum ia pergi ke kuil.

Kahlil Gibran

Buku: Orang Gila – Kahlil Gibran (1918)

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ON GIVING AND TAKING
By: Kahlil Gibran

Once there lived a man who had a valleyful of needles.
And one day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: “Friend, my son’s garment is torn and I must needs mend it before he goeth to the temple. Wouldst thou not give me a needle?”

And he gave her not a needle, but he gave her a learned discourse on Giving and Taking to carry to her son before he should go to the temple.

Kahlil Gibran

Book: The Madman – Kahlil Gibran (1918)