- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 1: In this silence
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 1: In this silence, AND AN ORATOR SAID, SPEAK TO US OF FREEDOM. AND HE ANSWERED: AT THE CITY GATE AND BY YOUR FIRESIDE I HAVE SEEN YOU PROSTRATE YOURSELF AND WORSHIP YOUR OWN FREEDOM, EVEN AS SLAVES HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE A TYRANT AND PRAISE HIM THOUGH HE SLAYS THEM at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 2: The real freedom
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 2: The real freedom, AND WHAT IS IT BUT FRAGMENTS OF YOUR OWN SELF YOU WOULD DISCARD THAT YOU MAY BECOME FREE? IF IT IS AN UNJUST LAW YOU WOULD ABOLISH, THAT LAW WAS WRITTEN WITH YOUR OWN HAND UPON YOUR OWN FOREHEAD. YOU CANNOT ERASE IT BY BURNING YOUR LAW BOOKS NOR BY WASHING THE FOREHEADS OF YOUR JUDGES, THOUGH YOU POUR THE SEA UPON THEM. AND IF IT IS A DESPOT YOU WOULD DETHRONE, SEE FIRST THAT HIS THRONE ERECTED WITHIN YOU IS DESTROYED at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 3: Each moment a resurrection
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 3: Each moment a resurrection, 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 at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 4: Breaking the shell of the past
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 4: Breaking the shell of the past, 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 OF YOUR HEART, EVEN AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS ACCEPTED THE SEASONS THAT PASS OVER YOUR FIELDS. AND YOU WOULD WATCH WITH SERENITY THROUGH THE WINTERS OF YOUR GRIEF at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 5: Not even the heart... only a witness
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 5: Not even the heart... only a witness, 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 THOUGHT. YOU WOULD TOUCH WITH YOUR FINGERS THE NAKED BODY OF YOUR DREAMS at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 6: Within your own self
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 6: Within your own self, 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 at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 7: Friendliness rises higher than love
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 7: Friendliness rises higher than love, 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 at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 8: Into the very center of silence
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 8: Into the very center of silence, AND THEN A SCHOLAR SAID, SPEAK OF 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 at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 9: This moment... the only reality
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 9: This moment... the only reality, 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 YOU IS AWARE OF LIFE'S TIMELESSNESS, AND KNOWS THAT YESTERDAY IS BUT TODAY'S MEMORY AND TOMORROW IS TODAY'S DREAM at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 10: Evil is nothing but an absence of good
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 10: Evil is nothing but an absence of good, 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? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 11: Only a question of awareness
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 11: Only a question of awareness, YOU ARE GOOD WHEN YOU ARE FULLY AWAKE IN YOUR SPEECH. YET YOU ARE NOT EVIL WHEN YOU SLEEP WHILE YOUR TONGUE STAGGERS WITHOUT PURPOSE. AND EVEN STUMBLING SPEECH MAY STRENGTHEN A WEAK TONGUE. YOU ARE GOOD WHEN YOU WALK TO YOUR GOAL FIRMLY AND WITH BOLD STEPS at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 12: The silent gratitude
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 12: The silent gratitude, 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? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 13: The seed of blissfulness
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 13: The seed of blissfulness, THEN A HERMIT, WHO VISITED THE CITY ONCE A YEAR, CAME FORTH AND SAID, SPEAK TO US OF PLEASURE. AND HE ANSWERED, SAYING: PLEASURE IS A FREEDOM-SONG, BUT IT IS NOT FREEDOM. IT IS THE BLOSSOMING OF YOUR DESIRES, BUT IT IS NOT THEIR FRUIT. IT IS A DEPTH CALLING UNTO A HEIGHT, BUT IT IS NOT THE DEEP NOR THE HIGH at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 14: A dewdrop cannot offend the ocean
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 14: A dewdrop cannot offend the ocean, AND SOME OF YOUR ELDERS REMEMBER PLEASURES WITH REGRET LIKE WRONGS COMMITTED IN DRUNKENNESS. BUT REGRET IS THE BECLOUDING OF THE MIND AND NOT ITS CHASTISEMENT. THEY SHOULD REMEMBER THEIR PLEASURES WITH GRATITUDE, AS THEY WOULD THE HARVEST OF A SUMMER. YET IF IT COMFORTS THEM TO REGRET, LET THEM BE COMFORTED. AND THERE ARE AMONG YOU THOSE WHO ARE NEITHER YOUNG TO SEEK NOR OLD TO REMEMBER; AND IN THEIR FEAR OF SEEKING AND REMEMBERING THEY SHUN ALL PLEASURES, LEST THEY NEGLECT THE SPIRIT OR OFFEND AGAINST IT at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 15: A heart aflame, a soul enchanted
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 15: A heart aflame, a soul enchanted, AND A POET SAID, SPEAK TO US OF BEAUTY. AND HE ANSWERED: WHERE SHALL YOU SEEK BEAUTY, AND HOW SHALL YOU FIND HER UNLESS SHE HERSELF BE YOUR WAY AND YOUR GUIDE? AND HOW SHALL YOU SPEAK OF HER EXCEPT SHE BE THE WEAVER OF YOUR SPEECH? THE AGGRIEVED AND THE INJURED SAY, BEAUTY IS KIND AND GENTLE at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 16: From dawn to dawn, a wonder and surprise
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 16: From dawn to dawn, a wonder and surprise, AND AN OLD PRIEST SAID, SPEAK TO US OF RELIGION. AND HE SAID: HAVE I SPOKEN THIS DAY OF AUGHT ELSE? IS NOT RELIGION ALL DEEDS AND ALL REFLECTION, AND THAT WHICH IS NEITHER DEED NOR REFLECTION, BUT A WONDER AND A SURPRISE EVER SPRINGING IN THE SOUL, EVEN WHILE THE HANDS HEW THE STONE OR TEND THE LOOM? WHO CAN SEPARATE HIS FAITH FROM HIS ACTIONS, OR HIS BELIEF FROM HIS OCCUPATIONS? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 17: In you are hidden all men
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 17: In you are hidden all men, YOUR DAILY LIFE IS YOUR TEMPLE AND YOUR RELIGION. WHENEVER YOU ENTER INTO IT TAKE WITH YOU YOUR ALL. TAKE THE PLOUGH AND THE FORGE AND THE MALLET AND THE LUTE, THE THINGS YOU HAVE FASHIONED IN NECESSITY OR FOR DELIGHT. FOR IN REVERIE YOU CANNOT RISE ABOVE YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS NOR FALL LOWER THAN YOUR FAILURES. AND TAKE WITH YOU ALL MEN: FOR IN ADORATION YOU CANNOT FLY HIGHER THAN THEIR HOPES NOR HUMBLE YOURSELF LOWER THAN THEIR DESPAIR. AND IF YOU WOULD KNOW GOD, BE NOT THEREFORE A SOLVER OF RIDDLES at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 18: I call it meditation
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 18: I call it meditation, THEN ALMITRA SPOKE, SAYING, WE WOULD ASK NOW OF DEATH. AND HE SAID: YOU WOULD KNOW THE SECRET OF DEATH. BUT HOW SHALL YOU FIND IT UNLESS YOU SEEK IT IN THE HEART OF LIFE? THE OWL WHOSE NIGHT-BOUND EYES ARE BLIND UNTO THE DAY CANNOT UNVEIL THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT. IF YOU WOULD INDEED BEHOLD THE SPIRIT OF DEATH, OPEN YOUR HEART WIDE UNTO THE BODY OF LIFE at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 19: Let my words be seeds in you
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 19: Let my words be seeds in you, AND NOW IT WAS EVENING. AND ALMITRA THE SEERESS SAID, BLESSED BE THIS DAY AND THIS PLACE AND YOUR SPIRIT THAT HAS SPOKEN. AND HE ANSWERED, WAS IT I WHO SPOKE? WAS I NOT ALSO A LISTENER? THEN HE DESCENDED THE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE AND ALL THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM. AND HE REACHED HIS SHIP AND STOOD UPON THE DECK at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 20: Don't judge the ocean by its foam
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 20: Don't judge the ocean by its foam, THE MIST THAT DRIFTS AWAY AT DAWN, LEAVING BUT DEW IN THE FIELDS, SHALL RISE AND GATHER INTO A CLOUD AND THEN FALL DOWN IN RAIN. AND NOT UNLIKE THE MIST HAVE I BEEN. IN THE STILLNESS OF THE NIGHT I HAVE WALKED IN YOUR STREETS, AND MY SPIRIT HAS ENTERED YOUR HOUSES, AND YOUR HEART-BEATS WERE IN MY HEART, AND YOUR BREATH WAS UPON MY FACE, AND I KNEW YOU ALL. AY, I KNEW YOUR JOY AND YOUR PAIN, AND IN YOUR SLEEP YOUR DREAMS WERE MY DREAMS at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 21: Become again an innocent child
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 21: Become again an innocent child, WISE MEN HAVE COME TO YOU TO GIVE YOU OF THEIR WISDOM. I CAME TO TAKE OF YOUR WISDOM: AND BEHOLD I HAVE FOUND THAT WHICH IS GREATER THAN WISDOM. IT IS A FLAME SPIRIT IN YOU EVER GATHERING MORE OF ITSELF, WHILE YOU, HEEDLESS OF ITS EXPANSION, BEWAIL THE WITHERING OF YOUR DAYS. IT IS LIFE IN QUEST OF LIFE IN BODIES THAT FEAR THE GRAVE. THERE ARE NO GRAVES HERE. THESE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS ARE A CRADLE AND A STEPPING STONE. WHENEVER YOU PASS BY THE FIELD WHERE YOU HAVE LAID YOUR ANCESTORS LOOK WELL THEREUPON, AND YOU SHALL SEE YOURSELVES AND YOUR CHILDREN DANCING HAND IN HAND at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 22: A peak unto yourself
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 22: A peak unto yourself, AND SOME OF YOU HAVE CALLED ME ALOOF, AND DRUNK WITH MY OWN ALONENESS, AND YOU HAVE SAID, 'HE HOLDS COUNCIL WITH THE TREES OF THE FOREST, BUT NOT WITH MEN.' 'HE SITS ALONE ON HILLTOPS AND LOOKS DOWN UPON OUR CITY.' TRUE IT IS THAT I HAVE CLIMBED THE HILLS AND WALKED IN REMOTE PLACES. HOW COULD I HAVE SEEN YOU SAVE FROM A GREAT HEIGHT OR A GREAT DISTANCE? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 23: Doors to the mysterious
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 23: Doors to the mysterious, THIS WOULD I HAVE YOU REMEMBER IN REMEMBERING ME: THAT WHICH SEEMS MOST FEEBLE AND BEWILDERED IN YOU IS THE STRONGEST AND MOST DETERMINED. IS IT NOT YOUR BREATH THAT HAS ERECTED AND HARDENED THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR BONES? AND IS IT NOT A DREAM WHICH NONE OF YOU REMEMBER HAVING DREAMT, THAT BUILDED YOUR CITY AND FASHIONED ALL THERE IS IN IT? COULD YOU BUT SEE THE TIDES OF THAT BREATH YOU WOULD CEASE TO SEE ALL ELSE, AND IF YOU COULD HEAR THE WHISPERING OF THE DREAM YOU WOULD HEAR NO OTHER SOUND at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 24: We shall speak again together, I shall come back to you
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah Chapter 24: We shall speak again together, I shall come back to you, FARE YOU WELL, PEOPLE OF ORPHALESE. THIS DAY HAS ENDED. IT IS CLOSING UPON US EVEN AS THE WATER-LILY UPON ITS OWN TO-MORROW. WHAT WAS GIVEN US HERE WE SHALL KEEP, AND IF IT SUFFICES NOT, THEN AGAIN MUST WE COME TOGETHER AND TOGETHER STRETCH OUR HANDS UNTO THE GIVER. FORGET NOT THAT I SHALL COME BACK TO YOU. A LITTLE WHILE, AND MY LONGING SHALL GATHER DUST AND FOAM FOR ANOTHER BODY. A LITTLE WHILE, A MOMENT OF REST UPON THE WIND, AND ANOTHER WOMAN SHALL BEAR ME at energyenhancement.org
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