2012 ዲሴምበር 27, ሐሙስ

“The Prophet” by Khalil Gibran~On Marriage, On Children, On Giving


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 It was written in English by the Lebanese Khalil Gibran and published in 1923. Its poetic wisdom and the spiritual universal message has made it a modern classic now translated to more than 40 languages. The work is now in the Public Domain and can be downloaded here in full length as a PDF-file for free. We also have a public domain version ofThe Madman by Kahlil Gibran, you can find it here:

  • On Marriage
  • On Children
  • On Giving

On Marriage

      Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?" 

      And he answered saying: 

      You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. 

      You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days. 
      Aye, 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.
 


On Children
      And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: 
      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.
 



The Prophet by Khalil Gibran-The Coming of the Ship and On Love


Download
 “The Prophet” by 
Khalil Gibran in ebook
   It was written in English by the Lebanese Khalil Gibran and published in 1923. Its poetic wisdom and the spiritual universal message has made it a 

modern classic now translated to more than 40 languages. The work is now in the Public Domain and can be downloaded here in full length as a PDF-file for free. We also have a public domain version of The Madman by Kahlil Gibran, you can find it here:
  • The Coming of the Ship
  • On Love

The Prophet free ebook by Khalil Gibran Public Domain PDF
The Coming of the Ship
      Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. 
      And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward; and he beheld the ship coming with the mist.
 
      Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.