Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah:
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 1: A dawn unto his own day
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 1: A dawn unto his own day, 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. AND IN THE TWELFTH YEAR, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF IELOOL, THE MONTH OF REAPING, HE CLIMBED THE HILL WITHOUT THE CITY WALLS AND LOOKED SEAWARD; AND HE BEHELD HIS SHIP COMING WITH THE MIST at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 2: A boundless drop to a boundless ocean
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 2: A boundless drop to a boundless ocean, YET I CANNOT TARRY LONGER. THE SEA THAT CALLS ALL THINGS UNTO HER CALLS ME, AND I MUST EMBARK. FOR TO STAY, THOUGH THE HOURS BURN IN THE NIGHT, IS TO FREEZE AND CRYSTALLIZE AND BE BOUND IN A MOULD. FAIN WOULD I TAKE WITH ME ALL THAT IS HERE. BUT HOW SHALL I? A VOICE CANNOT CARRY THE TONGUE AND THE LIPS THAT GAVE IT WINGS. ALONE MUST IT SEEK THE ETHER. AND ALONE AND WITHOUT HIS NEST SHALL THE EAGLE FLY ACROSS THE SUN at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 3: A seeker of silences
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 3: A seeker of silences, AND AS HE WALKED HE SAW FROM AFAR MEN AND WOMEN LEAVING THEIR FIELDS AND THEIR VINEYARDS AND HASTENING TOWARDS THE CITY GATES. AND HE HEARD THEIR VOICES CALLING HIS NAME, AND SHOUTING FROM FIELD TO FIELD TELLING ONE ANOTHER OF THE COMING OF HIS SHIP. AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF: SHALL THE DAY OF PARTING BE THE DAY OF GATHERING? AND SHALL IT BE SAID THAT MY EVE WAS IN TRUTH MY DAWN? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 4
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 4, AND WHEN HE ENTERED INTO THE CITY ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO MEET HIM, AND THEY WERE CRYING OUT TO HIM AS WITH ONE VOICE. AND THE ELDERS OF THE CITY STOOD FORTH AND SAID: GO NOT YET AWAY FROM US. A NOONTIDE HAVE YOU BEEN IN OUR TWILIGHT, AND YOUR YOUTH HAS GIVEN US DREAMS TO DREAM at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 5: Disclose us to ourselves
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 5: Disclose us to ourselves, AND OTHERS CAME ALSO AND ENTREATED HIM. BUT HE ANSWERED THEM NOT. HE ONLY BENT HIS HEAD; AND THOSE WHO STOOD NEAR SAW HIS TEARS FALLING UPON HIS BREAST. AND HE AND THE PEOPLE PROCEEDED TOWARDS THE GREAT SQUARE BEFORE THE TEMPLE. AND THERE CAME OUT OF THE SANCTUARY A WOMAN WHOSE NAME WAS ALMITRA. AND SHE WAS A SEERESS. AND HE LOOKED UPON HER WITH EXCEEDING TENDERNESS, FOR IT WAS SHE WHO HAD FIRST SOUGHT AND BELIEVED IN HIM WHEN HE HAD BEEN BUT A DAY IN THEIR CITY at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 6: Speak to us of love
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 6: Speak to us of love, THEN SAID ALMITRA, SPEAK TO US OF LOVE. AND HE RAISED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED UPON THE PEOPLE, AND THERE FELL A STILLNESS UPON THEM. AND WITH A GREAT VOICE HE SAID: WHEN LOVE BECKONS TO YOU, FOLLOW HIM, THOUGH HIS WAYS ARE HARD AND STEEP. AND WHEN HIS WINGS ENFOLD YOU YIELD TO HIM, THOUGH THE SWORD HIDDEN AMONG HIS PINIONS MAY WOUND YOU. AND WHEN HE SPEAKS TO YOU BELIEVE IN HIM, THOUGH HIS VOICE MAY SHATTER YOUR DREAMS AS THE NORTH WIND LAYS WASTE THE GARDEN at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 7: Love possesses not
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 7: Love possesses not, LOVE GIVES NAUGHT BUT ITSELF AND TAKES NAUGHT BUT FROM ITSELF. LOVE POSSESSES NOT NOR WOULD IT BE POSSESSED; FOR LOVE IS SUFFICIENT UNTO LOVE. WHEN YOU LOVE YOU SHOULD NOT SAY, 'GOD IS IN MY HEART,' BUT RATHER, 'I AM IN THE HEART OF GOD.' AND THINK NOT YOU CAN DIRECT THE COURSE OF LOVE, FOR LOVE, IF IT FINDS YOU WORTHY, DIRECTS YOUR COURSE. LOVE HAS NO OTHER DESIRE BUT TO FULFILL ITSELF at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 8: Let there be spaces
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 8: Let there be spaces, THEN ALMITRA SPOKE AGAIN AND SAID, AND WHAT OF MARRIAGE, MASTER? AND HE ANSWERED SAYING: YOU WERE BORN TOGETHER, AND TOGETHER YOU SHALL BE FOR EVERMORE. YOU SHALL BE TOGETHER WHEN THE WHITE WINGS OF DEATH SCATTER YOUR DAYS at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 9: Your children are not your children
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 9: Your children are not your children, AND A WOMAN WHO HELD A BABE AGAINST HER BOSOM SAID, SPEAK TO US OF CHILDREN. AND HE SAID: YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN. THEY ARE THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LIFE'S LONGING FOR ITSELF. THEY COME THROUGH YOU BUT NOT FROM YOU, AND THOUGH THEY 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 at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 10: When you give of yourself
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 10: When you give of yourself, THEN SAID A RICH MAN, SPEAK TO US OF GIVING. AND HE ANSWERED: YOU GIVE BUT LITTLE WHEN YOU GIVE OF YOUR POSSESSIONS. IT IS WHEN YOU GIVE OF YOURSELF THAT YOU TRULY GIVE. FOR WHAT ARE YOUR POSSESSIONS BUT THINGS YOU KEEP AND GUARD FOR FEAR YOU MAY NEED THEM TOMORROW? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 11: Life gives unto life
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 11: Life gives unto life, YOU OFTEN SAY, 'I WOULD GIVE, BUT ONLY TO THE DESERVING.' THE TREES IN YOUR ORCHARD SAY NOT SO, NOR THE FLOCKS IN YOUR PASTURE. THEY GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE, FOR TO WITHHOLD IS TO PERISH. SURELY HE WHO IS WORTHY TO RECEIVE HIS DAYS AND HIS NIGHTS IS WORTHY OF ALL ELSE FROM YOU at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 12: The wine and the winepress
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 12: The wine and the winepress, THEN AN OLD MAN, A KEEPER OF AN INN, SAID, SPEAK TO US OF EATING AND DRINKING. AND HE SAID: WOULD THAT YOU COULD LIVE ON THE FRAGRANCE OF THE EARTH, AND LIKE AN AIR PLANT BE SUSTAINED BY THE LIGHT. BUT SINCE YOU MUST KILL TO EAT, AND ROB THE NEWLY BORN OF ITS MOTHER'S MILK TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST, LET IT THEN BE AN ACT OF WORSHIP, AND LET YOUR BOARD STAND AN ALTAR ON WHICH THE PURE AND THE INNOCENT OF FOREST AND PLAIN ARE SACRIFICED FOR THAT WHICH IS PURER AND STILL MORE INNOCENT IN MAN at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 13: Speak to us of work
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 13: Speak to us of work, THEN A PLOUGHMAN SAID, SPEAK TO US OF WORK. AND HE ANSWERED, SAYING: YOU WORK THAT YOU MAY KEEP PACE WITH THE EARTH AND THE SOUL OF THE EARTH. FOR TO BE IDLE IS TO BECOME A STRANGER UNTO THE SEASONS, AND TO STEP OUT OF LIFE'S PROCESSION THAT MARCHES IN MAJESTY AND PROUD SUBMISSION TOWARDS THE INFINITE at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 14: Work is love made visible
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 14: Work is love made visible, AND WHAT IS IT TO WORK WITH LOVE? IT IS TO WEAVE THE CLOTH WITH THREADS DRAWN FROM YOUR HEART, EVEN AS IF YOUR BELOVED WERE TO WEAR THAT CLOTH. IT IS TO BUILD A HOUSE WITH AFFECTION, EVEN AS IF YOUR BELOVED WERE TO DWELL IN THAT HOUSE at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 15: Beyond joy and sorrow
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 15: Beyond joy and sorrow, THEN A WOMAN SAID, SPEAK TO US OF JOY AND SORROW. AND HE ANSWERED: YOUR JOY IS YOUR SORROW UNMASKED. AND THE SELFSAME WELL FROM WHICH YOUR LAUGHTER RISES WAS OFTENTIMES FILLED WITH YOUR TEARS. AND HOW ELSE CAN IT BE? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 16: From house to home from home to temple
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 16: From house to home from home to temple, THEN A MASON CAME FORTH AND SAID, SPEAK TO US OF HOUSES. AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID: BUILD OF YOUR IMAGININGS A BOWER IN THE WILDERNESS ERE YOU BUILD A HOUSE WITHIN THE CITY WALLS. FOR EVEN AS YOU HAVE HOMECOMINGS IN YOUR TWILIGHT, SO HAS THE WANDERER IN YOU, THE EVER-DISTANT AND ALONE. YOUR HOUSE IS YOUR LARGER BODY at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 17: The boundless within you
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 17: The boundless within you, AND TELL ME, PEOPLE OF ORPHALESE, WHAT HAVE YOU IN THESE HOUSES? AND WHAT IT IS YOU GUARD WITH FASTENED DOORS? HAVE YOU PEACE, THE QUIET URGE THAT REVEALS YOUR POWER? HAVE YOU REMEMBRANCES, THE GLIMMERING ARCHES THAT SPAN THE SUMMITS OF THE MIND? HAVE YOU BEAUTY, THAT LEADS THE HEART FROM THINGS FASHIONED OF WOOD AND STONE TO THE HOLY MOUNTAIN? TELL ME, HAVE YOU THESE IN YOUR HOUSES? at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 18: Shame was his loom...
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 18: Shame was his loom..., AND THE WEAVER SAID, SPEAK TO US OF CLOTHES. AND HE ANSWERED: YOUR CLOTHES CONCEAL MUCH OF YOUR BEAUTY, YET THEY HIDE NOT THE UNBEAUTIFUL. AND THOUGH YOU SEEK IN GARMENTS THE FREEDOM OF PRIVACY YOU MAY FIND IN THEM A HARNESS AND A CHAIN. WOULD THAT YOU COULD MEET THE SUN AND THE WIND WITH MORE OF YOUR SKIN AND LESS OF YOUR RAIMENT. FOR THE BREATH OF LIFE IS IN THE SUNLIGHT AND THE HAND OF LIFE IS IN THE WIND at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 19: The gifts of the earth
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 19: The gifts of the earth, AND A MERCHANT SAID, SPEAK TO US OF BUYING AND SELLING. AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID: TO YOU THE EARTH YIELDS HER FRUIT, AND YOU SHALL NOT WANT IF YOU BUT KNOW HOW TO FILL YOUR HANDS. IT IS IN EXCHANGING THE GIFTS OF THE EARTH THAT YOU SHALL FIND ABUNDANCE AND BE SATISFIED. YET UNLESS THE EXCHANGE BE IN LOVE AND KINDLY JUSTICE IT WILL BUT LEAD SOME TO GREED AND OTHERS TO HUNGER at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 20: Crime: a crowd psychology
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 20: Crime: a crowd psychology, 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 REMAINS FOR EVER UNDEFILED at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 21: Leaves of a single tree
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 21: Leaves of a single tree, OFTENTIMES HAVE I HEARD YOU SPEAK OF ONE WHO COMMITS A WRONG AS THOUGH HE WERE NOT ONE OF YOU BUT A STRANGER UNTO YOU AND AN INTRUDER UPON YOUR WORLD. BUT I SAY THAT EVEN AS THE HOLY AND THE RIGHTEOUS CANNOT RISE BEYOND THE HIGHEST WHICH IS IN EACH ONE OF YOU, SO THE WICKED AND THE WEAK CANNOT FALL LOWER THAN THE LOWEST WHICH IS IN YOU ALSO at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 22: Sinners and saints: the drama of sleeping people
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 22: Sinners and saints: the drama of sleeping people, IF ANY OF YOU WOULD BRING TO JUDGMENT THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE, LET HIM ALSO WEIGH THE HEART OF HER HUSBAND IN SCALES, AND MEASURE HIS SOUL WITH MEASUREMENTS. AND LET HIM WHO WOULD LASH THE OFFENDER LOOK UNTO THE SPIRIT OF THE OFFENDED. AND IF ANY OF YOU WOULD PUNISH IN THE NAME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LAY THE AXE UNTO THE EVIL TREE, LET HIM SEE TO ITS ROOTS; AND VERILY HE WILL FIND THE ROOTS OF THE GOOD AND THE BAD, THE FRUITFUL AND THE FRUITLESS, ALL ENTWINED TOGETHER IN THE SILENT HEART OF THE EARTH at energyenhancement.org
- Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 23: Except Love, There Should be No Law
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 1 The Messiah Chapter 23: Except Love, There Should be No Law, 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 at energyenhancement.org
Commentaries on Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. Vol. 2 The Messiah:
- 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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