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 7
עמוד 4
... gathering ? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn ? And what shall I give unto him who has left his ... gather and give unto them ? And shall my desires flow like a fountain that I may fill their cups ? Am I a harp that ...
... gathering ? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn ? And what shall I give unto him who has left his ... gather and give unto them ? And shall my desires flow like a fountain that I may fill their cups ? Am I a harp that ...
עמוד 38
... gather your houses into my hand , and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow . Would the valleys were your streets , and the green paths your alleys , that you might seek one another through vineyards , and come with the ...
... gather your houses into my hand , and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow . Would the valleys were your streets , and the green paths your alleys , that you might seek one another through vineyards , and come with the ...
עמוד 113
... gather dust and foam for another body . A little while , a moment of rest upon the wind , and another woman shall bear me . Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you . It was but yesterday we met in a dream . You have sung to ...
... gather dust and foam for another body . A little while , a moment of rest upon the wind , and another woman shall bear me . Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you . It was but yesterday we met in a dream . You have sung to ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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