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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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 7
עמוד 19
... hearts . And stand together yet not too near together : For the pillars of the temple stand apart , And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow . AND ND a woman who held a babe against her 19 THE PROPHET.
... hearts . And stand together yet not too near together : For the pillars of the temple stand apart , And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow . AND ND a woman who held a babe against her 19 THE PROPHET.
עמוד 54
... shadows , and their shadows are their laws . And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows ? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth ? But you who walk facing the sun , what ...
... shadows , and their shadows are their laws . And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows ? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth ? But you who walk facing the sun , what ...
עמוד 58
... shadows in pairs that cling . And when the shadow fades and is no more , the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light . And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom . ND the ...
... shadows in pairs that cling . And when the shadow fades and is no more , the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light . And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom . ND the ...
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