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The book reveals different meanings every time you read it.May be what you feel has emptiness now will be more logical than ever after some years.

Well, I read this book and saw its illustrations contained in the book when I was only 12. :P

I also read it when I was nineteen, but as I get older I start understand his ideas and his magical thoughts, it's really a great experience, It has this magical quality, the more you read it the more you come to understand the words

It contained the deepest feelings, meanings,and the ultimate truth of life. I relish it every time i read, as is with all other writings of Gibran Kahlil Gibran. Its ultimate realities remain the same when i read it as a boy of 17 and even now at 52..

The reaction to my review seems to range between endorsement and polite disagreement, but I want everyone to know that today, on my eleventh wedding anniversary, I reconsidered my review of The Prophet. And decided I'm totally right. If you don't believe me, try going to your partner of 11 years and saying, "let there be spaces in our togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between us." Watch their reaction.

The portions of marriage, children, and love, I'll admit, have an aspect of nihillism and hedonism being portrayed. Especially when you take into consideration that the portion of children starts with "Your children are not your children" and then progresses to describe them as a fated extension rather than an integral part, of a couple. Those portions are, admittedly, of a sensual vibe, with the tone as you have described them.
I only agree with those whole portions, and one more: the ending two lines which Al Mustafa had said to the seer. Which has double meanings and can lead one to imply the depth behind his words. There, one can assume that it has a sensual undertone behind it.

But taking these two aspects out, I would have to politely disagree over the book - as a whole - having sensual undertones, or even tones in general. Your review has food for thought, don't get me wrong, but its probably an aspect which is overlooked generally by reviewers and readers. Maybe analysts have spoken of it, but I'm not one per se.

So yeah, my two cent on your review.

I read the book as a teen and was seduced by its tone and word play. I agree wholeheartedly with Mansoor. It certainly motivated me to write in a fakey, romanticised manner. 50 years later I realised I've been conned.

I don't think the sentiments about being together in love but separate as individuals are necessarily an endorsement of infidelity. Rather, it's a caution not to lose yourself in the person you love and tie your identities together, which always ends in too much expectation and disappointment. It's of a thematic piece with the Children passage: you can't control another person or project yourself onto them no matter how closely you are linked or how much you love them. A marriage is two people loving and supporting one another through their individual growth, it says.

I agree COMPLETELY with Mansoor. When I was in my early 20s (1970s) I kept a journal where I hand-copied passages from books that motivated me such as Gibran. Now when I re-read what I had copied more than 40 years ago, I was amazed at the kind of nonsense like "From tongues of temple bells" that used to fill my head.

I must hasten to add that after copying these saccharine texts, I settled down to become a newspaper sub-editor where I was forced by the senior editors to develop a cynical, critical, questioning attitude to every piece pf writing that came to my desk. "Why are you writing this? Does the interviewee have a hidden agenda? What's the real story behind all this eloquence?" etc. Applying the same attitude to so-called "spiritual" writings, I find they are mostly word-play and contrived sentimentality.

im reading this book right now in my thirties and i cant stop asking myself if something went horribly wrong with your life if you find khalils words "shallow wordlay"...
maybe you should kept your spirit soaring high dunno
im so sorry for you but im also scared how life can change our beings...

I read it today for the very first time, so I won't endorse your view. But, I can't deny it either. It is indeed a view worth paying attention to and it needs some pondering.

I find it interesting people who pretend his words are shallow now. Please enighten us all which passages are shallow. I think more often the people who say that forget who gave them the original epiphanies and insights to begin with. Of course they will not have the same impact as when read first 20-30 years ago when they expanded your consciousness. But to call them shallow requires some examples please. For instance pick a passage that moved you as a younger person and then compare it to some other writer who has passages that contain more depth. It is easy to say such things, but giving evidence to back it up i find much rarer in these times. There is a reason his work still stands the test of time...

Wow! I can only try to imagine the kind of understanding one would need to verbalize such complex insights in such simple words. Through Osho, I understand that the only way to confirm the authenticity of such words is dwelling deep in meditation. So far, this is one book I would like to read on my death bed.

A great philosophical book...entrenched in it deep spiritual gifts.

I cannot say that I agree but I also can't completely disagree either. I think it is a beautiful writing but I can see Rose's point that it is used by pretentious men who want to be seen as this philosophical dream boat of a guy who is deeper than he looks on the surface and yes I agree women do eat this kind of stuff up. This book was recommended to me by a man and I thanked him for the recommendation and after reading it I let him know that I love it but I also feel it was a little on the nose the suggestion because I know his views on life and love in general, it feels like just another tool of manipulation. I asked what does he like so much about the book. He has yet to respond. I mean it seems very spiritual and he is certainly not that type. But he likes to be viewed that way as if it makes him seem like, more. And the girls all lose their minds over him.