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 81
... mountains . But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart , And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence : Our God , who art our ...
... mountains . But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart , And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence : Our God , who art our ...
עמוד 101
... mountains . I mirrored the summits in you and the bending slopes , and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires . And to my silence came the laughter of your children in streams , and the longing of your youths in ...
... mountains . I mirrored the summits in you and the bending slopes , and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires . And to my silence came the laughter of your children in streams , and the longing of your youths in ...
עמוד 104
... mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping - stone . Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors look well thereupon , and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand . Verily you often ...
... mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping - stone . Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors look well thereupon , and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand . Verily you often ...
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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