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 20
עמוד 1
... spirit shall I leave this city . Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls , and long were the nights of aloneness ; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret ? Too many fragments of the spirit ...
... spirit shall I leave this city . Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls , and long were the nights of aloneness ; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret ? Too many fragments of the spirit ...
עמוד 51
... spirit of the offended . And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the axe unto the evil ... spirit ? What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit ? And how prosecute ...
... spirit of the offended . And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the axe unto the evil ... spirit ? What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit ? And how prosecute ...
עמוד 85
Kahlil Gibran. But tell me , who is he that can offend the spirit ? Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night , or the firefly the stars ? And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind ? Think you the spirit is a still ...
Kahlil Gibran. But tell me , who is he that can offend the spirit ? Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night , or the firefly the stars ? And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind ? Think you the spirit is a still ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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