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 83
... Pleasure . And he answered , saying : Pleasure is a freedom - song , But it is not freedom . It is the blossoming of your desires , But it is not their fruit . It is a depth calling unto a height , But it is not the deep nor the high ...
... Pleasure . And he answered , saying : Pleasure is a freedom - song , But it is not freedom . It is the blossoming of your desires , But it is not their fruit . It is a depth calling unto a height , But it is not the deep nor the high ...
עמוד 84
... pleasures , lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it . But even in their foregoing is their pleasure . And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands . But tell me , who is he that can offend ...
... pleasures , lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it . But even in their foregoing is their pleasure . And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands . But tell me , who is he that can offend ...
עמוד 85
... pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being . Who knows but that which seems omitted to- day ... pleasure from that which is not good ? " Go to your fields and your gardens , and you shall learn that it is the ...
... pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being . Who knows but that which seems omitted to- day ... pleasure from that which is not good ? " Go to your fields and your gardens , and you shall learn that it is the ...
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