Hard to choose just one... But I think this one just blew me away-especially as I have gradually come to think this way of love:
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.”
I love all of them! If I had to choose one, it would be Nr. 10. If everyone took just this one to heart, there would be no conflict in the world.
THE PROPHET has been my 'bible' since the age of 16. Some 20 years later I was commissioned to write a biographical essay about Khalil Gibran for a German encyclopædia of 'contemporary foreign authors' (one of the highlights of my career at the time).
Thanks Mo! I too love Gibran’s writing and The Prophet is a spiritual text indeed. These quotes are wonderful and are doors to that sacred divinity of the spirit we all share. Thanks so much for this! Bless you. 🙏❤️
The Prophet is such a wonderful spiritual companion. The fact it is so slim ( my copy has only 60 pages) certainly makes it a light companion to accompany us on our life journeys. Light of page yet dense in it's meaning and comfort. 💜
#3 is one many couples ask for in their marriage vows. I am a celebrant.
Of your personal list, # 5 on sorrow and joy, resonates most for me: "Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
I love the juxtapositions, the paradoxes, the leaving and the "arrivings" of The Prophet, as this is the essence of life itself:
"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"
Thanks for sharing your own journey with The Prophet.
Hard to choose just one... But I think this one just blew me away-especially as I have gradually come to think this way of love:
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.”
My two go-to quotes from The Prophet are:
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
&
“Your children come through you but not from you.” (paraphrased)
I love this passage so much! Thank you, Mo!
I'm pretty sure Kahlil Gibran is my spirit animal. Thank you for sharing this reduction sauce of his wisdom. Just what I needed this morning.
I love this reminder, thank you🌺
I love all of them! If I had to choose one, it would be Nr. 10. If everyone took just this one to heart, there would be no conflict in the world.
THE PROPHET has been my 'bible' since the age of 16. Some 20 years later I was commissioned to write a biographical essay about Khalil Gibran for a German encyclopædia of 'contemporary foreign authors' (one of the highlights of my career at the time).
Thanks for putting these together. Great choice.
Just what I needed to read today!
Thanks Mo! I too love Gibran’s writing and The Prophet is a spiritual text indeed. These quotes are wonderful and are doors to that sacred divinity of the spirit we all share. Thanks so much for this! Bless you. 🙏❤️
The Prophet is such a wonderful spiritual companion. The fact it is so slim ( my copy has only 60 pages) certainly makes it a light companion to accompany us on our life journeys. Light of page yet dense in it's meaning and comfort. 💜
#3 is one many couples ask for in their marriage vows. I am a celebrant.
Of your personal list, # 5 on sorrow and joy, resonates most for me: "Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
I love the juxtapositions, the paradoxes, the leaving and the "arrivings" of The Prophet, as this is the essence of life itself:
"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"
Thanks for sharing your own journey with The Prophet.