“Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one

who commits a wrong as though he were

not one of you, but a stranger unto you and

an intruder upon your world.

But I say that even as the holy and the

righteous cannot rise beyond the highest

which is in each one of you,

So the wicked and the weak cannot fall

lower than the lowest which is in you also.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but

with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,

So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong

without the hidden will of you all.

Like a procession you walk together to-

wards your god-self.”

(From: The Prophet by Khalil Gibran)