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 4
עמוד 24
... keep and guard for 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 ...
... keep and guard for 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 ...
עמוד 32
... keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth . For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons , and ... keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
... keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth . For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons , and ... keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
עמוד 113
... keep , And if it suffices not , then again must we come to- gether and together stretch our hands unto the giver . Forget not that I shall come back to you . A little while , and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body ...
... keep , And if it suffices not , then again must we come to- gether and together stretch our hands unto the giver . Forget not that I shall come back to you . A little while , and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body ...
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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