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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עמוד 16
... Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup . Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf . Sing and dance together and be joyous , but let each one of you be alone , Even as the strings of a lute are alone though 16.
... Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup . Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf . Sing and dance together and be joyous , but let each one of you be alone , Even as the strings of a lute are alone though 16.
עמוד 28
... drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream . And what desert greater shall there be , than that which lies in the courage and the confidence , nay the charity , of receiving ? And who are you that men ...
... drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream . And what desert greater shall there be , than that which lies in the courage and the confidence , nay the charity , of receiving ? And who are you that men ...
עמוד 75
... drinks even of dead waters . You are good when you are one with yourself . Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil . For a divided house is not a den of thieves ; it is only a divided house . And a ship without rudder ...
... drinks even of dead waters . You are good when you are one with yourself . Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil . For a divided house is not a den of thieves ; it is only a divided house . And a ship without rudder ...
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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