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 9
עמוד 9
... desires ; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you . Yet this we ask ere you leave us , that you speak to us and give us of your truth . And we will give it unto our children , and they unto their children , and it shall ...
... desires ; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you . Yet this we ask ere you leave us , that you speak to us and give us of your truth . And we will give it unto our children , and they unto their children , and it shall ...
עמוד 12
... desire but to fulfil itself . But if you love and must needs have desires , let these be your desires : To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night . To know the pain of too much tenderness . To be wounded by ...
... desire but to fulfil itself . But if you love and must needs have desires , let these be your desires : To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night . To know the pain of too much tenderness . To be wounded by ...
עמוד 39
... enters the house a guest , and then becomes a host , and then a master ? Ay , and it becomes a tamer , and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires . Though its hands are silken , its heart is of 39 THE PROPHET.
... enters the house a guest , and then becomes a host , and then a master ? Ay , and it becomes a tamer , and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires . Though its hands are silken , its heart is of 39 THE PROPHET.
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