And now you ask in your heart, “How

shall we distinguish that which is good in

the pleasure from that which is not good?”

     Go to your fields and your gardens, and

you shall learn that it is the pleasure of

the bee to gather honey of the flower,

     But it is also the pleasure of the flower

to yield its honey to the bee.

     For the bee, a flower is a fountain of

life,

     And to the flower, a bee is a messenger of

love,

     And to both, bee and flower, the giving

and the receiving of pleasure is a need and

an ecstasy.

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 -Kahlil Gibran