All houses are dark until the mother wakes up - Khalil Gibran

 

All houses are dark until the mother wakes up. ~ Khalil Gibran.

From Essay "The Mother" (found in The Broken Wings):

"The mother is everything—she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy and forgiveness... The sun is the mother of the earth and gives its nourishment of heat; it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep... and the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love."