What a talented man! Such a great thinker and writer, friend of us all! The truth said in such a poetic way! This man was brilliant so his books are timeless. I so enjoy reading his works. I love "The Profit". If you have not read it find one and take your time so that each word sinks in to you soul.
For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Thought-provoking collection of life-affirming parables and poems by the author of The Prophet, many casting an ironic light on the beliefs, aspirations, and vanities of humankind.
Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.This is a book of poetic essays that he began while still a youth in Lebanon, is one of the most cherished books of our time and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages since its publication in 1923. But all of Gibran’s works—essays, stories, parables, and prose poems—are imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom, whether they are addressing marriage or children, friendship or grief, work or pleasure. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.
Included in his volumes are The Prophet, The Wanderer, Jesus the Son of Man, A Tear and a Smile, Spirits Rebellious, Nymphs of the Valley, Prose Poems, The Garden of the Prophet, The Earth Gods, Sand and Foam, The Forerunner, and The Madman.
Quotes
"I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
--The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul
"Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes."
--from "Spirits Rebellious" (1908)
"A sense of humor is a sense of proportion."
--from "Sand and Foam" (1926)
"Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom."
--from "Spirits Rebellious" (1908)
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have built are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
"And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon."
--from "The Forerunner" (1920)
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"Say not that the Divine is in your Heart, but rather, you are in the Heart of the Divine"
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
“To belittle, you have to be little.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
"The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action." from "The Madman: His Parables and Poems" (1918)
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
Аз съм Роси. Това е моят блог за грим, мода, козметика.
