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 3
עמוד 52
... fullness of light ? Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy - self and the day of his god- self , And that the corner - stone of the temple is not higher ...
... fullness of light ? Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy - self and the day of his god- self , And that the corner - stone of the temple is not higher ...
עמוד 83
... fullness of heart ; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing . Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all , and they are judged and rebuked . I would not judge nor rebuke them . I would have them seek . For they ...
... fullness of heart ; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing . Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all , and they are judged and rebuked . I would not judge nor rebuke them . I would have them seek . For they ...
עמוד 97
... the seeds of the tenacious plant , and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered . Brief were my days among you , and briefer still the words I have spoken . But should my voice 97.
... the seeds of the tenacious plant , and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered . Brief were my days among you , and briefer still the words I have spoken . But should my voice 97.
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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