“Stranger, stranger, lover of unreachable heights, why dwell you among the summits where eagles build their nests? By the time of Gibran's death in 1931, it had also been translated into German. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your hearts: The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder. [8]:p55 Connections and parallels have also been made to William Blake's work,[9] as well as the theological ideas of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson such as reincarnation and the Over-soul. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. He saw but the good in us.”. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online … “Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net; For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.”. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips. Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. [21], Gibran followed The Prophet with The Garden of the Prophet, which was published posthumously in 1933. And you receivers—and you are all receivers—assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. Much have we loved you. it. And of nights when earth was up-wrought with confusion. “لا تجالس أنصاف العشاق، ولا تصادق أنصاف الأصدقاء، لا تقرأ لأنصاف الموهوبين،لا تعش نصف حياة، ولا تمت نصف موت،لا تختر نصف حل، ولا تقف في … Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Kamila was thirty when Gibran was born, and Gibran's father, Khalil, was her third husband. The demand for The Prophet doubled the following year—and doubled again the year after that. Condition is "Brand New". Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 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. And these my mariners, who have heard the choir of the greater sea, they too have heard me patiently. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. It is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth or digs holes into darkness for safety. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear. And the elders of the city stood forth and said: A noontide have you been in our twilight, and your youth has given us dreams to dream. And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”. The law is not retroactive; it excludes works published in the lifetime of authors who died in 1956 or earlier, Siddharthan, Rahul (2002). It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Shipping and handling. Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. His might binds you to the earth, his fragrance lifts you into space, and in his durability you are deathless. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret. But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. But many critics have been lukewarm about his merits. And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man’s path? She speaks in our spirit. Brief were my days among you, and briefer still the words I have spoken. But a thing free, a spirit that envelops the earth and moves in the ether. The future American royalties to his books were willed to his … Lebanon-born writer and artist Kahlil Gibran became known for his mystical Arabic and English works, earning fame following the 1923 publication of 'The Prophet. But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. And in beholding him that I beheld you and loved you. These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling. This masterpiece is now available for FREE here in the United States. And what vaporous birds do you hunt in the sky? Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling? You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. The Gibran National Committee (GNC) is a nonprofit organization formed by virtue of Decree No. 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. The Prophet (A Borzoi Book) by Kahlil Gibran (1923-09-23) by Gibran, Kahil Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. destruction. It is Gibran's best known work. 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. One of Gibran's acquaintances, Juliet Thompson, reported several anecdotes relating to Gibran. [10], Gibran had a number of strong connections to the Baháʼí Faith starting around 1912. And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Think not I say these things in order that you may say the one to the other, “He praised us well. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”. A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, “Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.”. The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked. And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyards for the winepress, say in your heart. And he heard their voices calling his name, and shouting from field to field telling one another of the coming of his ship. me. Later printing. If you are not a resident of the United States, You must check your own Countries Copyright Laws before you continue. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is ito doubt his generosity who has the freehearted earth for mother, and God for father. There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both, Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows—then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason.”, And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky,—then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.”. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran had two younger sisters, Marianna and Sultana, and an older half-brother, Boutros, from one of Kamila's previous marriages. And he looked upon her with exceeding tenderness, for it was she who had first sought and believed in him when he had been but a day in their city. and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. The vast man in whom you are all but cells and sinews; He in whose chant all your singing is but a soundless throbbing. Even though the work “the Prophet” is now part of the Public Domain within the US, we strongly  encourage all of our visitors to visit and consider donating to http://www.gibrankhalilgibran.org/. I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought. Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. And then shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. 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. And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured. And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. And let him who would lash the offender look unto the spirit of the offended. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear; For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered. And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw. The Garden of the Prophet narrates Al Mustafa's discussions with nine disciples following Al Mustafa's return after an intervening absence. But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening. She recalled Gibran had met 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the leader of the religion, at the time of `Abdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West. Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches and power and glory. Your thoughts and my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of our yesterdays. is in all of you. Gibran's family lived in poverty. Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. 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? Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute. And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed. And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? If any of you would bring to judgment the unfaithful wife. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. With Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, Quvenzhané Wallis, John Krasinski. Less than a promise have I given, and yet more generous have you been to Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors’. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. This is but half the truth. But he answered them not. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. “By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed. The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding. And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles. This would I have you remember in remembering me: That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Founded in 1935, the GNC is a non-profit corporation holding the exclusive rights to manage the Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran's copyright in and to his literary and artistic works. Kahlil Gibran took more than 11 years to formulate and perfect this book. But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons. I would have them seek. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. And it is with this belief and this knowledge that I say. The Prophet - Khalil Gibran. Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing the stars? And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart: How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? hand in hand. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. [6] The book sold its one millionth copy in 1957. And your heart-beats were in my heart, and your breath was upon my face, and I knew you all. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold over ten million copies. But your god-self dwells not alone in your being. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. The freest song comes not through bars and wires. Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced. You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes. ; all of which are exclusively owned by the GNC. “No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. 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. In your aloneness you have watched with our days, and in your wakefulness you have listened to the weeping and the laughter of our sleep. contain. But how shall I? After saying these things he looked about him, and he saw the pilot of his ship standing by the helm and gazing now at the full sails and now at the distance. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment. If you are not located in the United States, you’ll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart. His teachings to them, discussing love, marriage, crime, freedom and law among many other aspects of everyday life, form the 26 poetic essays of Gibran's work. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion. If these be vague words, then seek not to clear them. New Thought Books. 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. And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. Some of you say, “It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear.”. Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. The Prophet (1923) Kahlil Gibran The Prophet is a book of prose poetry that made its Lebanese-American author famous.Commonly found in gift shops and frequently quoted at weddings or any occasion where uplifting 'spiritual' thoughts are required, the work has never been a favorite of intellectuals - to some readers it may seem a bit twee or pompous - yet its author was a genuine artist … And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart. And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. "[8]:p165 In 1928,[14] after the death of `Abdu'l-Bahá, at a viewing of a movie of `Abdu'l-Bahá, Gibran rose to talk and proclaimed in tears an exalted station of `Abdu'l-Bahá and left the event weeping still. If any of you would bring to judgement the unfaithful wife, Let him also weigh the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements. [4] By 2012, it had sold more than nine million copies in its American edition alone since its original publication in 1923. And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment. Too proud indeed am I to receive wages, but not gifts. Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires. It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels. But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece published in French for the 30 th time…. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Sixty-sixth printing of Lebanese-American and New Age pioneer Gibran's classic collection of quasi-spiritual prose poems, recounting the return journey of the prophet Al Mustafa after 12 years The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well. Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I must go. Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure. You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked. If you are not a resident of the United States, You must check your own Countries Copyright Laws before you continue. Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. New Thought Authors. And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also. And now you ask in your heart, “How shall we distinguish that which is But even in their foregoing is their pleasure. And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither. And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? harvest of a summer. Prophet of God, in quest of the uttermost, long have you searched the distances for your ship. Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. bending slopes, and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied. And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak. The stream has reached the sea, and once more the great mother holds her son against her breast. Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god-self, And that the corner-stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind. Whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors look well thereupon, and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing And it is yours to bring forth 82sweet music from it or confused sounds. But let there be spaces in your togetherness. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And I hunted only your larger selves that walk the sky. Deep is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling place of your greater desires; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you. And he reached his ship and stood upon the deck. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it. remember; And in their fear of seeking and remembering 81they shun all pleasures, lest they neglect Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast. You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”. And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow.”. And when you destroy them the ocean laughs with you. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving. Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? But much in his heart remained unsaid. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. And you have said, “He holds council with the trees of the forest, but not with men. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering … Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from … What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. And then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers. In 1923, Kahlil Gibran’s third book in English was published by Alfred Abraham Knopf in New York, The Prophet: twenty-eight sermons of wisdom with twelve paintings that add an extra dimension to the text. And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit? Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride? Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth. But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship. And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the ax unto the evil tree, let him see to its roots; And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.

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