Your Joy is your sorrow unmasked!
This book is one among books which changed my thinking about life. In this book Khalil Gibran was talking about different areas of a person’s life such as love, marriage, children, parents and so forth. However, one of the points which attracted me is the one about joy and sorrow.
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In this book, the author explained well where there is joy there is also sorrow near it. They go hand in hand. Some people say that joy is greater than sorrow or the opposite but in deed, they are equal and the extend to which we feel joy is quite equal to the one we feel sorrow.
Therefore, we should not be mistaken. We should always remember that whenever we are happy then we should also expect sorrow. This will enable us to benefit from each condition we are facing.
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