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 28
עמוד 9
... of your memories and the dwelling - place of your greater desires ; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you . Yet this we ask ere you leave us , that you speak to us and give us of your truth . And we will give it unto ...
... of your memories and the dwelling - place of your greater desires ; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you . Yet this we ask ere you leave us , that you speak to us and give us of your truth . And we will give it unto ...
עמוד 42
... of your beauty , yet they hide not the unbeautiful . And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain . Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your ...
... of your beauty , yet they hide not the unbeautiful . And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain . Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your ...
עמוד 101
... of your children in streams , and the 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 ...
... of your children in streams , and the 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 ...
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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