The Prophet

A Little Treasury of Marvelous Wisdom:The Prophet is a book of 26 pithy prose poetry essays written in English by philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet has been translated into well over 40 languages. By 2012, it had sold more than nine million copies in its American edition alone since its original publication in 1923

Some good insights you get from the book:

1. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed."

2. "For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite."

3. "Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart."

4. "For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen."

5. "And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."

6. "Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

Synopsis:The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

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