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 8
עמוד 34
... breath of your own spirit , And to know that all the blessed dead are stand- ing about you and watching . Often have I heard you say , as if speaking in sleep , “ He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone ...
... breath of your own spirit , And to know that all the blessed dead are stand- ing about you and watching . Often have I heard you say , as if speaking in sleep , “ He who works in marble , and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone ...
עמוד 42
... breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind . Some of you say , " It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear . " And I say , Ay , it was the north wind , But shame was his loom , and the softening ...
... breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind . Some of you say , " It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear . " And I say , Ay , it was the north wind , But shame was his loom , and the softening ...
עמוד 60
... then let your heart say in awe , " God moves in passion . ” And since you are a breath in God's sphere , and a leaf in God's forest , you too should rest in reason and move in passion . ND a woman spoke , saying , Tell us of 60 THE PROPHET.
... then let your heart say in awe , " God moves in passion . ” And since you are a breath in God's sphere , and a leaf in God's forest , you too should rest in reason and move in passion . ND a woman spoke , saying , Tell us of 60 THE PROPHET.
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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