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 11
... roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth . Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself . He threshes you to make you naked . He sifts you to free you from your husks . He grinds you to whiteness . He kneads you until you ...
... roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth . Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself . He threshes you to make you naked . He sifts you to free you from your husks . He grinds you to whiteness . He kneads you until you ...
עמוד 51
... roots ; And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad , the fruitful and the fruitless , all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth . And you judges who would be just . What judgment pronounce you upon him who ...
... roots ; And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad , the fruitful and the fruitless , all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth . And you judges who would be just . What judgment pronounce you upon him who ...
עמוד 84
... roots and found a treasure ? And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness . But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement . They should remember their pleasures with ...
... roots and found a treasure ? And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness . But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement . They should remember their pleasures with ...
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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