The Prophet, passage 483

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.

The Prophet, passage 565

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

The Prophet, passage 669

And is it not a dream which none of you remember having dreamt, that builded your city and fashioned all there is in it?

The Prophet, passage 130

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

The Prophet, passage 256

And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players,--buy of their gifts also.

The Prophet, passage 285

And still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless and unblamed.

The Prophet, passage 148

And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?

The Prophet, passage 398

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

The Prophet, passage 506

And a poet said, Speak to us of _Beauty_.

The Prophet, passage 300

Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

The Prophet, passage 679

Patient, over patient, is the captain of my ship.

The Prophet, passage 246

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The Prophet, passage 272

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,

The Prophet, passage 41

And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also.

The Prophet, passage 387

And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

The Prophet, passage 548

For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.

The Prophet, passage 694

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

The Prophet, passage 258

And before you leave the market place, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.

The Prophet, passage 163

And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,

The Prophet, passage 318

You who travel with the wind, what weather-vane shall direct your course?

The Prophet, passage 549

For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.

The Prophet, passage 514

Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow.”

The Prophet, passage 654

And I the believer was also the doubter;

The Prophet, passage 632

Too proud indeed am I to receive wages, but not gifts.

The Prophet, passage 537

Who can spread his hours before him, saying, “This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?”

The Prophet, passage 193

But I say, not in sleep but in the overwakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;

The Prophet, passage 360

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

The Prophet, passage 210

Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.

The Prophet, passage 84

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”

The Prophet, passage 650

But were their solitude deeper they would have known that I sought but the secret of your joy and your pain,

The Prophet, passage 166

“I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the winepress,

The Prophet, passage 279

And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your hearts:

The Prophet, passage 120

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The Prophet, passage 409

The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

The Prophet, passage 336

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

The Prophet, passage 373

And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

The Prophet, passage 459

And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.

The Prophet, passage 112

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of _Children_.

The Prophet, passage 520

And in the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.”

The Prophet, passage 295

What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit?

The Prophet, passage 143

The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.

The Prophet, passage 588

In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets, and my spirit has entered your houses,

The Prophet, passage 464

Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.

The Prophet, passage 220

Have you peace, the quiet urge that reveals your power?

The Prophet, passage 356

And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

The Prophet, passage 494

Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?

The Prophet, passage 243

And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.

The Prophet, passage 570

And Almitra the seeress said, Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken.

The Prophet, passage 187

It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.

The Prophet, passage 227

It makes mock of your sound senses, and lays them in thistledown like fragile vessels.