Kahlil Gibran

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Kahlil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883 at Beshari, Lebanon. Beshari itself is an area that is often called on hurricanes, earthquakes and lightning. This is what will greatly influence his writings about nature.






"Look at me, a word meaning vague and confusing, sometimes meaningless, sometimes means many things"







Thus Gibran defines himself. It mentions himself as a word. Why should Gibran identify himself as a word? Of course the extent not read the words as the dictionary as a element of the smallest language as the realization of the unity of mind and feelings. It looks like there is a hidden meaning conveyed by that word's meaning Gibran.




Can be described that said Gibran is a fruit which ideas and thoughts are read in his writings, by which the leave ambiguitas interpretation among readers and commentators. In and through words, Gibran reveals many things, in many ways. Gibran can bounce sorrow with joy, happiness with tears and anger dinyanyikannya. At the end of the asker said melt, melt-blended with a sense of strong and regular to be a living language says, fresh, lush, stinging and burning soul.


'Look at me, a word ...' seems to be a call to a last-mening left free to interpret. Therefore do not be surprised if a particular organization in the traditional Gibran seen as a meaningful word in many ways. Some are mentioned as mistikus Gibran, poet, writer, philosopher, believer, lover of peace, the Prophet and some even call it a man immortal. Nomination and the reference is a reasonable inference from the words that poured in his writings. Not rarely the same words Gibran viewed as rebels, infidels, revolutionary and rebel. Gibran diidentikan the word does not mean, does not have a meaning for life, as well as present more as a lunatic not abandoned.


However, all nominations, terms and the words of Gibran still let question for all the properties might have on. This Gibran appearing as the meaning of a word vague and confusing. Gibran in and by itself the same is inexpressible words, vague and even confusing.

kahlil gibran love

In 1908 Kahlil Gibran stopover in Paris again. Here he lived happy that routinely receive enough money from Mary Haskell, a school principal who was 10 years older but known to have a special relationship with him since he was still living in Boston.



Before the publication of "The Prophet", a close relationship between Mary and Gibran started is unclear. Mary proposed Florance Minis, a wealthy businessman from Georgia. He offered to Mary a life of luxury and urged him to release his education responsibilities. Although the relationship Mary and Gibran was originally colored with a variety of considerations and discussions about the possibility of their marriage, but basically the principles of Mary has been a lot different with Gibran. Their impatience in building close relationships and their rejection of marriage clearly had penetrated into the relationship. Mary finally received Florance Minis.

kahlil gibran death

On 10 April 1931 at 11:00 PM, Kahlil Gibran died. His body had indeed been long undermined by liver cirrhosis and tuberculosis, but for this he refused to be hospitalized. On that last morning, he was taken to St. Petersburg. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village.

Marianna next day sent a telegram to Mary in Savannah to proclaim the death of this poet. Although caring for her husband who was also suffering from pain, Mary still found time to mourn Gibran.

Gibran's body then was buried on August 21, Mar Sarkis, a Carmelite monastery where Gibran once did worship.



After the death of Gibran, Barbara Young is one who knows the ins and outs of the studio, the legacy and heritage of land owned by Gibran.

The words written next to Gibran's grave are "a word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, Will you see me in front of you .. .. "

kahlil gibran quotes : A - F

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?
Khalil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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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.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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kahlil gibran quotes : G - L

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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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.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Love is trembling happiness.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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kahlil gibran quotes : M - P

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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kahlil gibran quotes : R - T

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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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.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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kahlil gibran quotes : W

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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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.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.
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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.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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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.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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kahlil gibran quotes : Y - Z

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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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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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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Kahlil Gibran On Friendship

Kahlil Gibran On Friendship

Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.


When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
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.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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.



And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran on Love

Kahlil Gibran on Love

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.




For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

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.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
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.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran On Children

Kahlil Gibran On Children


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.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.




You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran On Marriage

Kahlil Gibran On Marriage

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
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.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.


Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Kahlil Gibran On Death

Kahlil Gibran On Death

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.



In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?


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?


Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

kahlil gibran the prophet

Novel by Kahlil Gibran, is one kind of novel that much sought after by lovers of literature. Especially, by those who in reading a novel not only by looking at the plot. However, the height of style and philosophical elements contained in a novel is also a consideration the value of its own to determine the quality of a novel worth reading.

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Some of the advantages of this novel by Kahlil Gibran include:

- Using a simple yet beautiful language, so easy to understand while still promoting the aesthetic language.
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