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 13
עמוד 24
... fear you may need them to- morrow ? And to - morrow , what shall to - morrow bring to the over - prudent dog burying bones in the track- less sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city ? And what is fear of need but need itself ...
... fear you may need them to- morrow ? And to - morrow , what shall to - morrow bring to the over - prudent dog burying bones in the track- less sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city ? And what is fear of need but need itself ...
עמוד 39
Kahlil Gibran. In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near together . And that fear shall endure a little longer . A little longer shall your city walls separate your hearths from your fields . And tell me , people of Orphalese ...
Kahlil Gibran. In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near together . And that fear shall endure a little longer . A little longer shall your city walls separate your hearths from your fields . And tell me , people of Orphalese ...
עמוד 58
Kahlil Gibran. And if it is a fear you would dispel , the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared . Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace , the desired and the dreaded , the ...
Kahlil Gibran. And if it is a fear you would dispel , the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared . Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace , the desired and the dreaded , the ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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