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The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
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A beautiful book that is almost dreamlike in scope...the kind of dream you have when you think that you have found a piece to the puzzle of life. But Gibran truly has found more than one piece of the puzzle...a book that will be your friend for the rest of your life.
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,â€� and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.â€�
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― The Prophet
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― The Prophet
“When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God".”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
Reading Progress
June 8, 1996
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July 13, 1996
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Finished Reading
October 9, 2016
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Feb 06, 2021 10:25AM
"If you have needs and must needs have desires, make these your desires: to know the pain of too much tenderness, and to bleed willingly and joyfully: to sing a melody like a brook who sings its melody unto the night: and to build a house as if your beloved were to dwell within that house; Have you remembrances those Golden Arches that span the summits of the mind ? and If you sing and love not the singing you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the night; When you work you are a flute whos whispers a loving song to the men and women of the day and night : and if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread which but feeds half man's hunger; and do not say I have met the soul walking upon a path, because the soul walks upon all paths; And how will you know Beauty, unless she be your way and your guide ? The Prophet
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I discovered this book when in under-graduate school when everyone was reading it. And as you so beautifully stated, it has become my friend for life. Wonderful!!
I live near Dearborn, Michigan, the heart of one of the largest Arab communities in the U.S. In the Arab American museum there, Gibran has a special area devoted to his life and memory.
