[ Gibran ] I kissed a Prophet

And your body is the harp of your soul,  
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.  
And now you ask in your heart, "How shall we distinguish that which is good in 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 to 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.  
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet  

 
 
Honestly, when I said  
to the Orphalesians  
And your body is the harp of your soul,  
And it is yours to bring forth sweet music  
from it or confused sounds.  
 
and they asked  
"How shall we distinguish  
that which is good in pleasure  
from that which is not good?"  
 
I wanted to say  
Nothing untowardly could ever  
come about from plucking away  
at the G string  
 
but I felt flowers and bees  
were more down to earth  
analogies