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 40
... passion of the soul , and then walks grinning in the funeral . But you , children of space , you restless in rest , you shall not be trapped nor tamed . Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast . It shall not be a glistening film ...
... passion of the soul , and then walks grinning in the funeral . But you , children of space , you restless in rest , you shall not be trapped nor tamed . Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast . It shall not be a glistening film ...
עמוד 60
Kahlil Gibran. And let it direct your passion with reason , that your passion may live through its own daily resur- rection , and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes . I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even ...
Kahlil Gibran. And let it direct your passion with reason , that your passion may live through its own daily resur- rection , and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes . I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even ...
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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