Love138 THE PROPHET - On Prayer - Kahlil Gibran THEN a priestess said, Speak to us of Prayer. And he answered, saying: You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether? And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Good and Evil - Kahlil Gibran AND one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil. And he answered: Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yours.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Time - Kahlil Gibran AND an astronomer said, Master, what of Time? And he answered: You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in your is aware of life’s timelessness, And knows that yesterday.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Talking - Kahlil Gibran AND then a scholar said, Speak to Talking. And he answered, saying: You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but .. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Friendship - Kahlil Gibran AND a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered, saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your won mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.” And .. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Teaching - Kahlil Gibran THEN said a teacher, Speak to us of Teaching. And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. 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. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you .. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Self-Knowledge - Kahlil Gibran AND a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thoughts. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your .. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Pain - Kahlil Gibran AND a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. 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; And you would accept the seasons o.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Reason and Passion - Kahlil Gibran AND the Priestess spoke again and said: Speak to us of Reason and Passion. And he answered, saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you y.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Freedom - Kahlil Gibran AND an orator said, Speak to us of Freedom. And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen your prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. And .. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Laws - Kahlil Gibran THEN a lawyer said, But what of our Laws, master? And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean l.. 2007. 8. 9. THE PROPHET - On Crime and Punishment - Kahlil Gibran THEN one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak to us of Crime and Punishment. And he answered, saying: It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, That you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself. And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while unheeded at the gate of the blessed. Like the ocean is your god-self; It rema.. 2007. 8. 9. 이전 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ··· 12 다음
