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 24
... makes their gifts unwhole- some . And there are those who have little and give it all . These are the believers in life and the bounty of life , and their coffer is never empty . 4 There are those who give with joy , and 24.
... makes their gifts unwhole- some . And there are those who have little and give it all . These are the believers in life and the bounty of life , and their coffer is never empty . 4 There are those who give with joy , and 24.
עמוד 29
... with the giver on his gifts as on wings ; For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free - hearted earth for mother , and God for father . TH HEN an old man , a keeper of an 29 THE PROPHET.
... with the giver on his gifts as on wings ; For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free - hearted earth for mother , and God for father . TH HEN an old man , a keeper of an 29 THE PROPHET.
עמוד 44
... gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied . Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger . When in the market - place you toilers of the sea and fields ...
... gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied . Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger . When in the market - place you toilers of the sea and fields ...
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