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 21
עמוד 32
... earth and the soul of the earth . For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons , and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite . When you work you are a flute through ...
... earth and the soul of the earth . For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons , and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite . When you work you are a flute through ...
עמוד 44
... earth yields her fruit , and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands . It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied . Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice ...
... earth yields her fruit , and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands . It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied . Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice ...
עמוד 54
... earth ? But you who walk facing the sun , what images drawn on the earth can hold you ? You who travel with the wind , what weather- vane shall direct your course ? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's ...
... earth ? But you who walk facing the sun , what images drawn on the earth can hold you ? You who travel with the wind , what weather- vane shall direct your course ? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's ...
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