The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 105
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let
each one of you be alone,
The Prophet, passage 266
But your god-self dwells not alone
in your being.
The Prophet, passage 262
That you, alone and unguarded, commit
a wrong unto others and therefore unto
yourself.
The Prophet, passage 487
And there are among you those who
are neither young to seek nor old to
remember;
The Prophet, passage 342
And thus your freedom when it loses its
fetters becomes itself the fetter of a
greater freedom.
The Prophet, passage 522
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of
needs unsatisfied,
The Prophet, passage 68
And when his wings enfold you yield to
him,
The Prophet, passage 1
_The Twelve Illustrations In This Volume
Are Reproduced From Original Drawings By
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The Prophet, passage 273
So the wicked and the weak cannot fall
lower than the lowest which is in you
also.
The Prophet, passage 577
We are the seeds of the tenacious
plant, and it is in our ripeness and our
fullness of heart that we are given to
the wind and are scattered.
The Prophet, passage 381
The teacher who walks in the shadow of
the temple, among his followers, gives
not of his wisdom but rather of his
faith and his lovingness.
The Prophet, passage 94
And then to sleep with a prayer for
the beloved in your heart and a song of
praise upon your lips.
The Prophet, passage 482
Have you not heard of the man who was
digging in the earth for roots and found
a treasure?
The Prophet, passage 534
Is not religion all deeds and all
reflection,
The Prophet, passage 167
And like new wine I shall be kept in
eternal vessels.”
The Prophet, passage 87
But if you love and must needs have
desires, let these be your desires:
The Prophet, passage 490
And thus they too find a treasure though
they dig for roots with quivering hands.
The Prophet, passage 19
Now when he reached the foot of the
hill, he turned again towards the sea,
and he saw his ship approaching the
harbour, and upon her prow the mariners,
the men of his own land.
The Prophet, passage 488
And in their fear of seeking and
remembering they shun all pleasures,
lest they neglect the spirit or offend
against it.
The Prophet, passage 671
And if you could hear the whispering of
the dream you would hear no other sound.
The Prophet, passage 332
And what is it but fragments of your
own self you would discard that you may
become free?
The Prophet, passage 116
You may house their bodies but not their
souls,
The Prophet, passage 685
And if it suffices not, then again must
we come together and together stretch
our hands unto the giver.
The Prophet, passage 438
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain
for yourself.
The Prophet, passage 566
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?
The Prophet, passage 613
And what is word knowledge but a shadow
of wordless knowledge?
The Prophet, passage 375
Say not, “I have found the truth,” but
rather, “I have found a truth.”
The Prophet, passage 466
I cannot teach you how to pray in words.
The Prophet, passage 78
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.
The Prophet, passage 289
If any of you would bring to judgment
the unfaithful wife,
The Prophet, passage 602
Like a giant oak tree covered with apple
blossoms is the vast man in you.
The Prophet, passage 423
And that that which sings and
contemplates in you is still dwelling
within the bounds of that first moment
which scattered the stars into space.
The Prophet, passage 550
And if you would know God be not
therefore a solver of riddles.
The Prophet, passage 209
Verily you are suspended like scales
between your sorrow and your joy.
The Prophet, passage 516
And with her cries came the sound of
hoofs, and the beating of wings and the
roaring of lions.”
The Prophet, passage 4
The Coming of the Ship
On Love
On Marriage
On Children
On Giving
On Eating and Drinking
On Work
On Joy and Sorrow
On Houses
On Clothes
On Buying and Selling
On Crime and Punishment
On Laws
On Freedom
On Reason and Passion
On Pain
On Self-Knowledge
On Teaching
On Friendship
On Talking
On Time
On Good and Evil
On Prayer
On Pleasure
On Beauty
On Religion
On Death
The Farewell
The Prophet, passage 237
Your clothes conceal much of your
beauty, yet they hide not the
unbeautiful.
The Prophet, passage 627
You have given me my deeper thirsting
after life.
The Prophet, passage 169
And let there be in the song a
remembrance for the autumn days, and for
the vineyard, and for the winepress.
The Prophet, passage 366
Your hearts know in silence the secrets
of the days and the nights.
The Prophet, passage 551
Rather look about you and you shall see
Him playing with your children.
The Prophet, passage 660
But a thing free, a spirit that envelops
the earth and moves in the ether.
The Prophet, passage 407
For thought is a bird of space, that in
a cage of words may indeed unfold its
wings but cannot fly.
The Prophet, passage 394
When you part from your friend, you
grieve not;
The Prophet, passage 558
For life and death are one, even as the
river and the sea are one.
The Prophet, passage 34
Shall my heart become a
tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may
gather and give unto them?
The Prophet, passage 278
Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him,
who though faster and surer of foot, yet
removed not the stumbling stone.
The Prophet, passage 149
See first that you yourself deserve to
be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
The Prophet, passage 50
You have walked among us a spirit,
and your shadow has been a light
upon our faces.
The Prophet, passage 648
Descend and appease your hunger with our
bread and quench your thirst with our
wine.”