The prophet / Khalil Gibran If in your life you dont time to read quun book, although this is the one. He will accompany you in every moment of your life where the uncertainty haunts you and you open mind and heart to live better and feel richer inside. Khalil Gibran was born in Lebanon in 1883 in a small mountain village, shepherd and father of a dune practicing Christian Maronite mother. Later the family emigrated to the US to settle down in Boston. Khalil will return to Lebanon to complete the baccalaureate. A great traveler, he sadonne painting and the writing. Very marked by the death of his mother, his sister and his brother, the same year he resumed the writing of the "Prophet" in English that he had sketched in Arabic at the age of fifteen. It sinstalle frequent in France and Debussy, Rostand and Maeterlinck and Rodin. The 'Prophet was published in 1923. This is 48 years old that he goes out in New York in 1931. Each page of this album is a reflection, a poem, and all subjects that occupy a life are discussed concisely and often parabolic. Altamira questioned by the seer, the wise Al Mustafa the Prophet dOrphalèse caters to people who just listen to it. Lamour "When love beckons to you, follow him. " Children "Your children, quoiquils are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts " Marriage, giving, eating, drinking, work, joy, sorrow, freedom are in turn discussed. Reason and passion: "Reason and passion are the rudder and the sails of your wandering soul. " The pain, knowledge, friendship, words, time, good and evil, prayer And then the fun: "Pleasure is a song of freedom, but it is not freedom" Beauty, religion, andthe death: "You would know the secret of death. But how do you discover the very heart of life? The owl whose eyes are blind night the day can not unveil the mystery of light. " An anthology of thought, incomparable and unforgettable reading and rereading Doeuvre The absolute leader. THE BEDSIDE BOOK. Read and reread the pages to use it ... Note that the translation of Marc De Albin Michel de Smedt in editing the collection "Modern Spirituality" is much better in my opinion than Jean Pierre Dahdah of the collection "Jai read."
