The ProphetSenate, 2002 - 113 עמודים In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts, but he possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 9
עמוד 1
... Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth . And in the twelfth year , on the seventh day of Ielool , the month of reaping , he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward ; and ...
... Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth . And in the twelfth year , on the seventh day of Ielool , the month of reaping , he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward ; and ...
עמוד 39
... Orphalese , what have you in these houses ? And what is it you guard with fastened doors ? Have you peace , the quiet urge that reveals your power ? Have you remembrances , the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind ? Have ...
... Orphalese , what have you in these houses ? And what is it you guard with fastened doors ? Have you peace , the quiet urge that reveals your power ? Have you remembrances , the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind ? Have ...
עמוד 98
... Orphalese , but not down into emptiness ; And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love , then let it be a promise till another day . Man's needs change , but not his love , nor his desire that his love should satisfy ...
... Orphalese , but not down into emptiness ; And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love , then let it be a promise till another day . Man's needs change , but not his love , nor his desire that his love should satisfy ...
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answered aught beauty beloved bless body boundless breath city gate city walls cloth dance dawn deeds deeper delight desires dream drink dwell ears earth ecstasy empty ether evil eyes fain fear fields flower flute forest fragrance freedom freedom-song fruit garment gather gazing gifts give unto giver god-self greater hand heard heart HEN Almitra spoke hidden hills hunger KAHLIL GIBRAN knowledge laughter life's lifts lips longing look love's lute man's mist mountains move in passion naked ND a woman needs ness night noontide offend oftentimes Orphalese pain peace pleasure pray prayer quiver remember rise roots rudder sails sand-towers secret seek shadow ship sing sleep song sorrow soul walks space Speak spirit stand stone stream tears temple invisible things thirst thought tides to-morrow tree truth Verily vineyards voice weaver weep wine winepress wings words