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 4
עמוד 12
... direct the course of love , for love , if it finds you worthy , directs your course . Love has no other 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 ...
... direct the course of love , for love , if it finds you worthy , directs your course . Love has no other 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 ...
עמוד 60
Kahlil Gibran. And let it direct your passion with reason , that your passion may live through its own daily resur- rection , and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes . I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even ...
Kahlil Gibran. And let it direct your passion with reason , that your passion may live through its own daily resur- rection , and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes . I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even ...
עמוד 73
... direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons . Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing . Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's time- lessness , And knows that yesterday ...
... direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons . Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing . Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's time- lessness , And knows that yesterday ...
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