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 11
עמוד 27
... space . Through the hands of such as these God speaks , and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth . It is well to give when asked , but it is better to give unasked , through understanding ; And to the open - handed the search ...
... space . Through the hands of such as these God speaks , and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth . It is well to give when asked , but it is better to give unasked , through understanding ; And to the open - handed the search ...
עמוד 40
... space , you restless in rest , you shall not be trapped nor tamed . Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast . It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound , but an eyelid that guards the eye . You shall not fold your wings ...
... space , you restless in rest , you shall not be trapped nor tamed . Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast . It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound , but an eyelid that guards the eye . You shall not fold your wings ...
עמוד 67
... space , but he cannot give you his under- standing . The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm , nor the voice that echoes it . And he who is versed in the ...
... space , but he cannot give you his under- standing . The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm , nor the voice that echoes it . And he who is versed in the ...
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