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 40
... shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living . And though of magnificence and splendour , your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing . For that which is boundless in you abides in the 40 THE PROPHET.
... shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living . And though of magnificence and splendour , your house shall not hold your secret nor shelter your longing . For that which is boundless in you abides in the 40 THE PROPHET.
עמוד 77
... longing for your giant self lies your goodness : and that longing is in all of you . But in some of you that longing is a torrent rush- ing with might to the sea , carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest . And ...
... longing for your giant self lies your goodness : and that longing is in all of you . But in some of you that longing is a torrent rush- ing with might to the sea , carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest . And ...
עמוד 101
... longing of your youths in rivers . And when they reached my depth the streams and the rivers ceased not yet to sing . But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me . ΙΟΙ It was the boundless in you ; The vast man ...
... longing of your youths in rivers . And when they reached my depth the streams and the rivers ceased not yet to sing . But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me . ΙΟΙ It was the boundless in you ; The vast man ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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