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 5
עמוד 30
... born of its mother's milk to quench your thirst , let it then be an act of worship , And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacri- ficed for that which is purer and still more ...
... born of its mother's milk to quench your thirst , let it then be an act of worship , And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacri- ficed for that which is purer and still more ...
עמוד 32
... that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream , assigned to you when that dream was born , And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
... that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream , assigned to you when that dream was born , And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
עמוד 69
... born and shared , with joy that is unacclaimed . When you part from your friend , you grieve not ; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence , as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain . And let ...
... born and shared , with joy that is unacclaimed . When you part from your friend , you grieve not ; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence , as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain . And let ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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