..let there be spaces in your togetherness
and let the winds of heaven dance between you..
Love one another but make not
a bond of love
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul..
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup,
give one another 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 guitar are alone,
though they quiver with the same music..
Give your 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:
fo the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in
eacth other's shadow..
