The Prophet, passage 145

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.

The Prophet, passage 329

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

The Prophet, passage 670

Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,

The Prophet, passage 307

Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent.

The Prophet, passage 157

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

The Prophet, passage 636

You give much and know not that you give at all.

The Prophet, passage 192

And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.”

The Prophet, passage 185

And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

The Prophet, passage 340

These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.

The Prophet, passage 462

For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:

The Prophet, passage 32

And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

The Prophet, passage 21

Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of the tides,

The Prophet, passage 527

But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

The Prophet, passage 248

To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.

The Prophet, passage 682

And these my mariners, who have heard the choir of the greater sea, they too have heard me patiently.

The Prophet, passage 675

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.

The Prophet, passage 434

Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.

The Prophet, passage 382

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The Prophet, passage 316

And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth?

The Prophet, passage 419

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.

The Prophet, passage 528

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,

The Prophet, passage 540

The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

The Prophet, passage 668

Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

The Prophet, passage 344

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

The Prophet, passage 125

You give but little when you give of your possessions.

The Prophet, passage 57

And he looked upon her with exceeding tenderness, for it was she who had first sought and believed in him when he had been but a day in their city.

The Prophet, passage 478

Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and rebuked.

The Prophet, passage 651

And I hunted only your larger selves that walk the sky.

The Prophet, passage 51

Much have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been veiled.

The Prophet, passage 160

For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.

The Prophet, passage 298

Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve?

The Prophet, passage 542

The freest song comes not through bars and wires.

The Prophet, passage 338

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

The Prophet, passage 460

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

The Prophet, passage 576

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

The Prophet, passage 11

Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.

The Prophet, passage 485

They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

The Prophet, passage 212

Then a mason came forth and said, Speak to us of _Houses_.

The Prophet, passage 297

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

The Prophet, passage 680

The wind blows, and restless are the sails;

The Prophet, passage 27

Only another winding will this stream make, only another murmur in this glade,

The Prophet, passage 686

Forget not that I shall come back to you.

The Prophet, passage 224

Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires.

The Prophet, passage 270

For it is he and not your god-self nor the pigmy in the mist, that knows crime and the punishment of crime.

The Prophet, passage 203

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

The Prophet, passage 624

Verily you often make merry without knowing.

The Prophet, passage 388

And a youth said, Speak to us of _Friendship_.

The Prophet, passage 63

In your aloneness you have watched with our days, and in your wakefulness you have listened to the weeping and the laughter of our sleep.

The Prophet, passage 60

Deep is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling place of your greater desires; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you.

The Prophet, passage 677

And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.