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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 19
עמוד 38
... answered and said : Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilder- ness ere you build a house within the city walls . For even as you have home - comings in your twilight , so has the wanderer in you , the ever- distant and alone ...
... answered and said : Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilder- ness ere you build a house within the city walls . For even as you have home - comings in your twilight , so has the wanderer in you , the ever- distant and alone ...
עמוד 69
... answered , saying : Your friend is your needs answered . He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving . And he is your board and your fireside . For you come to him with your hunger , and you seek him for peace ...
... answered , saying : Your friend is your needs answered . He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving . And he is your board and your fireside . For you come to him with your hunger , and you seek him for peace ...
עמוד 75
... answered : Of the good in you I can speak , but not of the evil . For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst ? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves , and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead ...
... answered : Of the good in you I can speak , but not of the evil . For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst ? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves , and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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