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 73
... memory and to - morrow is to - day's dream . And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space . Who among you does not feel that his power to ...
... memory and to - morrow is to - day's dream . And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space . Who among you does not feel that his power to ...
עמוד 98
... memory , then I will come again , And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak . Yea , I shall return with the tide , And though death may hide me , and the greater silence enfold me , yet again will I seek ...
... memory , then I will come again , And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak . Yea , I shall return with the tide , And though death may hide me , and the greater silence enfold me , yet again will I seek ...
עמוד
... memory we should meet once more , we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song . And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky . So saying he made a signal to the seamen ...
... memory we should meet once more , we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song . And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky . So saying he made a signal to the seamen ...
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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