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 37
... remember that the other is asleep upon your bed . Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy . Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced . When the treasure - keeper lifts you to weigh his ...
... remember that the other is asleep upon your bed . Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy . Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced . When the treasure - keeper lifts you to weigh his ...
עמוד 84
... remember ; And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all 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 ...
... remember ; And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all 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 ...
עמוד 108
... of all things , but not their end , And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning . Life , and all that lives , is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal . And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay 108 THE PROPHET.
... of all things , but not their end , And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning . Life , and all that lives , is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal . And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay 108 THE PROPHET.
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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