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 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 16
עמוד 20
... souls , For their souls dwell in the house of to - morrow , which you cannot visit , not even in your dreams . You may strive to be like them , but seek not to make them like you . For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday ...
... souls , For their souls dwell in the house of to - morrow , which you cannot visit , not even in your dreams . You may strive to be like them , but seek not to make them like you . For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday ...
עמוד 66
... soul . " Say rather , " I have met the soul walking upon my path . " For the soul walks upon all paths . The soul walks not upon a line , neither does it grow like a reed . The soul unfolds itself , like a lotus of countless petals ...
... soul . " Say rather , " I have met the soul walking upon my path . " For the soul walks upon all paths . The soul walks not upon a line , neither does it grow like a reed . The soul unfolds itself , like a lotus of countless petals ...
עמוד 90
... soul , even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom ? Who can separate his faith from his actions , or his belief from his occupations ? Who can spread his hours before him , saying , " This for God and this for myself ; This for ...
... soul , even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom ? Who can separate his faith from his actions , or his belief from his occupations ? Who can spread his hours before him , saying , " This for God and this for myself ; This for ...
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