The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 575
Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I
must go.
The Prophet, passage 502
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of
life,
The Prophet, passage 592
I mirrored the summits in you and the
bending slopes, and even the
passing flocks of your thoughts and your
desires.
The Prophet, passage 315
And what is the sun to them but a caster
of shadows?
The Prophet, passage 496
Who knows but that which seems omitted
today, waits for tomorrow?
The Prophet, passage 280
The murdered is not unaccountable for
his own murder,
The Prophet, passage 666
This would I have you remember in
remembering me:
The Prophet, passage 239
Would that you could meet the sun and
the wind with more of your skin and less
of your raiment,
The Prophet, passage 39
If this indeed be the hour in which I
lift up my lantern, it is not my flame
that shall burn therein.
The Prophet, passage 465
It is enough that you enter the temple
invisible.
The Prophet, passage 449
Pity that the stags cannot teach
swiftness to the turtles.
The Prophet, passage 327
And my heart bled within me; for you
can only be free when even the desire
of seeking freedom becomes a harness
to you, and when you cease to speak of
freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.
The Prophet, passage 287
For they stand together before the face
of the sun even as the black thread and
the white are woven together.
The Prophet, passage 150
For in truth it is life that gives unto
life--while you, who deem yourself a
giver, are but a witness.
The Prophet, passage 429
And one of the elders of the city
said, Speak to us of _Good and Evil_.
The Prophet, passage 597
He in whose chant all your singing is
but a soundless throbbing.
The Prophet, passage 426
And is not time even as love is,
undivided and paceless?
The Prophet, passage 126
It is when you give of yourself that you
truly give.
The Prophet, passage 286
You cannot separate the just from the
unjust and the good from the wicked;
The Prophet, passage 663
And I fain would have you remember me as
a beginning.
The Prophet, passage 392
And when he is silent your heart ceases
not to listen to his heart;
The Prophet, passage 457
For what is prayer but the expansion of
yourself into the living ether?
The Prophet, passage 127
For what are your possessions but things
you keep and guard for fear you may need
them tomorrow?
The Prophet, passage 418
You would measure time the measureless
and the immeasurable.
The Prophet, passage 531
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
The Prophet, passage 121
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.
The Prophet, passage 139
It is well to give when asked, but it
is better to give unasked, through
understanding;
The Prophet, passage 424
Who among you does not feel that his
power to love is boundless?
The Prophet, passage 264
And like the ether it lifts but the
winged.
The Prophet, passage 579
But should my voice fade in your ears,
and my love vanish in your memory, then
I will come again,
The Prophet, passage 263
And for that wrong committed must you
knock and wait a while unheeded at the
gate of the blessed.
The Prophet, passage 491
But tell me, who is he that can offend
the spirit?
The Prophet, passage 223
Or have you only comfort, and the lust
for comfort, that stealthy thing that
enters the house a guest, and then
becomes a host, and then a master?
The Prophet, passage 614
Your thoughts and my words are waves
from a sealed memory that keeps records
of our yesterdays,
The Prophet, passage 403
And then a scholar said, Speak of _Talking_.
The Prophet, passage 572
Then he descended the steps of the
Temple and all the people followed him.
And he reached his ship and stood upon
the deck.
The Prophet, passage 59
And now your ship has come, and you must
needs go.
The Prophet, passage 655
For often have I put my finger
in my own wound that I might have the
greater belief in you and the greater
knowledge of you.
The Prophet, passage 333
If it is an unjust law you would
abolish, that law was written with your
own hand upon your own forehead.
The Prophet, passage 348
If either your sails or your rudder be
broken, you can but toss and drift,
or else be held at a standstill in
mid-seas.
The Prophet, passage 25
And then I shall stand among you, a
seafarer among seafarers.
The Prophet, passage 676
For in that day you shall know the
hidden purposes in all things,
The Prophet, passage 40
Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern,
The Prophet, passage 293
And verily he will find the roots of the
good and the bad, the fruitful and the
fruitless, all entwined together in
the silent heart of the earth.
The Prophet, passage 445
You are good when you walk to your goal
firmly and with bold steps.
The Prophet, passage 191
Often have I heard you say, as if
speaking in sleep, “He who works in
marble, and finds the shape of his own
soul in the stone, is nobler than he who
ploughs the soil.
The Prophet, passage 450
In your longing for your giant self lies
your goodness: and that longing is in
all of you.
The Prophet, passage 512
Like the tempest she shakes the earth
beneath us and the sky above us.”
The Prophet, passage 107
Give your hearts, but not into each
other’s keeping.
The Prophet, passage 617
Wise men have come to you to give you
of their wisdom. I came to take of your
wisdom: