The Prophet, passage 678

After saying these things he looked about him, and he saw the pilot of his ship standing by the helm and gazing now at the full sails and now at the distance.

The Prophet, passage 44

And the elders of the city stood forth and said:

The Prophet, passage 308

But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers,

The Prophet, passage 425

And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

The Prophet, passage 310

What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things?

The Prophet, passage 36

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?

The Prophet, passage 361

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

The Prophet, passage 659

It is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth or digs holes into darkness for safety,

The Prophet, passage 695

And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

The Prophet, passage 505

People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

The Prophet, passage 365

And a man said, Speak to us of _Self-Knowledge_.

The Prophet, passage 474

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”

The Prophet, passage 198

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

The Prophet, passage 674

And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it.

The Prophet, passage 56

And there came out of the sanctuary a woman whose name was Almitra. And she was a seeress.

The Prophet, passage 77

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.

The Prophet, passage 122

Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;

The Prophet, passage 55

And he and the people proceeded towards the great square before the temple.

The Prophet, passage 113

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

The Prophet, passage 265

It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.

The Prophet, passage 441

For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root.

The Prophet, passage 573

And facing the people again, he raised his voice and said:

The Prophet, passage 65

People of Orphalese, of what can I speak save of that which is even now moving within your souls?

The Prophet, passage 688

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

The Prophet, passage 500

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

The Prophet, passage 118

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

The Prophet, passage 189

It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,

The Prophet, passage 108

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

The Prophet, passage 138

Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.

The Prophet, passage 5

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.

The Prophet, passage 598

It is in the vast man that you are vast,

The Prophet, passage 218

In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near together. And that fear shall endure a little longer. A little longer shall your city walls separate your hearths from your fields.

The Prophet, passage 111

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

The Prophet, passage 114

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

The Prophet, passage 250

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

The Prophet, passage 687

A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body.

The Prophet, passage 472

It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.

The Prophet, passage 194

And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

The Prophet, passage 557

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

The Prophet, passage 631

Some of you have deemed me proud and over-shy to receive gifts.

The Prophet, passage 52

Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and would stand revealed before you.

The Prophet, passage 131

There are those who give little of the much which they have--and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

The Prophet, passage 437

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

The Prophet, passage 367

But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.

The Prophet, passage 319

What man’s law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man’s prison door?

The Prophet, passage 200

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

The Prophet, passage 430

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.

The Prophet, passage 653

For when my wings were spread in the sun their shadow upon the earth was a turtle.

The Prophet, passage 369

You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

The Prophet, passage 552

And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.