The Prophet

[hollygolightly]

Anyone else read this?

If so, how many times? ;)

Or is it a book you just dip into for certain chapters? :unsure:

For anyone who hasn't read it, you can read it here! (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cafe/8410/gibran.htm)

Certain chapters make me cry every time I read them. :cry:

I think it's one of my all time favourites. :) :book: :)

[Mad]

Hes a very good thinker :) good find holly. i had some of the Prophet read at my brothers Funeral, years ago :)

It was the piece about Death, made me cry :(

'Death

Than Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."

And he said:

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 sheered 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 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 form 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. Kahil Gibran

[sapphirelily10]

Fantastically descriptive and evocative. I have only dipped in and out of it, must take the time to read it all straight through :)

Sapph :)

[hollygolightly]

I feel that every household should have a copy (or copies! ;) ) of this book. :)

It is one that you can dip in and out of, read chapters that you need to, when you need to. It has warmed my heart and reduced me to tears on many occasions.

If you call into one of the many 'cheap' bookshops there are these days, you can sometimes pick a copy up for 99p. Or you can print it off from the link above. :)

[River daughter]

Hi holly :)

This book is always in my luggage :) :thumbs:

I've had so many copies over the years - it's the sort of book
you give to friends who might need it, isn't it ? :)
Our 'gang' used to have copies that went round with all the names
of the people who'd been in temporary 'possession' of it !

It's so simple, yet it seems to go straight to the core of truth.
And no apologies for waxing philosophical - not with this book -
it's real.

Nice one, holly! :thumbs:

RD

:flowers:

[IEHO]

One of my all time favourites, possibly the one I would take to the hypothetical desert island, only reason not to is that I can recite much of it off by heart.

IEHO