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A brilliant man's philosophy on love, marriage, joy and sorrow, time, friendship and much more. Originally published in 1923 - translated into more than 20 languages. With 12 full page drawings by Gibran.
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“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.”
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“"When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."”
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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”
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“Let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”
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“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, and the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it.”
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“...you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.”
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“You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.”
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“How could I have seen you save from a great height or a great distance? How can one be indeed near unless he be far?”
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“There are no graves here. These mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping-stone.”
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“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?”
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“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.”
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“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.”
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“And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.”
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“Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?”
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“Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul and this other for my body"?”
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“God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips”
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“...if you enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive”
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“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
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“For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?”
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“When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.”
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“...the timeless in you is award of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.”
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; and when you can no longer dwell in solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”
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“There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.”
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“Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
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“Children's minds are not vases to be filled, but candles to be lit”
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“For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday”
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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding;
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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First Sentence edit
ALMUSTAFA, THE CHOSEN AND the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
Table of Contents edit
The Coming of the Ship
On Love
On Marriage
On Children
On Giving
On Eat and Drinking
On Work
On Joy and Sorrow
On Houses
On Clothes
On Buying and Selling
On Crime and Punishment
On Laws
On Freedom
On Reason and Passion
On Pain
On Self-Knowledge
On Teaching
On Friendship
On Talking
On Time
On Good and Evil
On Prayer
On Pleasure
On Beauty
On Religion
On Death
The Farewell
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Penguin Modern Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Khalil Gibran (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1923
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 107
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1923
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 107
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3513.I25 P7 1923
- Dewey: 892.7'85
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia entry on the book The Prophet.
- WIKILIVRES: Full texts of the book is available here.
- The Prophet: The Prophet and other works of Gibran are available online in this site.
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