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 19
עמוד 35
Kahlil Gibran. ness of noontide , that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass ; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving ...
Kahlil Gibran. ness of noontide , that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass ; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving ...
עמוד 42
... wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment . For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind . Some of you say , " It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear . " And I say , Ay , it ...
... wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment . For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind . Some of you say , " It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear . " And I say , Ay , it ...
עמוד 97
... wind bids me leave you . Less hasty am I than the wind , yet I must go . We wanderers , ever seeking the lonelier way , begin no day where we have ended another day ; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us . Even while the earth ...
... wind bids me leave you . Less hasty am I than the wind , yet I must go . We wanderers , ever seeking the lonelier way , begin no day where we have ended another day ; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us . Even while the earth ...
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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