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 10
עמוד 30
... hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand . " Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven . " And when you crush an apple with your teeth , 30.
... hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand . " Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven . " And when you crush an apple with your teeth , 30.
עמוד 93
... is hidden the gate to eternity . Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour . Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling , that 93.
... is hidden the gate to eternity . Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour . Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling , that 93.
עמוד 104
... hand in hand . Verily you often make merry without knowing . Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches 104 THE PROPHET.
... hand in hand . Verily you often make merry without knowing . Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches 104 THE PROPHET.
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