Download or read book Kahlil Gibran The Nature of Love written by Andrew Dib Sherfan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study examines the renowned Lebanese author’s poetic depictions of love in its various forms and phases. Kahlil Gibran sees love as a burning fire, creating and destroying. Though it is at the center of life, it is for many a wellspring of strife and unsolved problems. Indeed, it seems that the more we write about it, the more mysterious it becomes. Yet there are those rare authors who can shine the light of truth on the subject—authors like Gibran. In this volume, Gibran scholar Andrew Dib Sherfan explores the various aspects of love according to the famous Lebanese poet and philosopher. Gibran’s writing is full of mystic symbolism and metaphors, many of which reveal profound insights into the nature of love between man and woman, parent and child, God and human, and individual and society.
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran s Little Book of Love written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Manjul Publishing. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kahlil Gibran’s aphorisms, stories and poetry on themes like love in all its myriad forms, and relationships in all its hues, remain among the best loved by readers. Gibran’s views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted ‘greeting card’ sayings, to encompass a wide realm of human emotions and relationships—passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. This book captures love and life in all their complexities and nuances. This beautiful volume includes over 90 selections from Gibran’s writings, and is informative, illuminating and inspirational, and makes for an ideal gift for all occasions.
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time.
Download or read book Speak to Us of Love written by Osho and published by Osho Media International. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing us to the most famous poems of the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, Osho takes the reader into a mystical world, addressing essential issues in everybody’s life. The famous verse that gives the title to this book is about “love”—but not the ordinary love we know from novels and movies. Speak to us of Love gives a taste of a contemporary mystic at work, trying to disrupt our dreams, illusions, and the state of unconsciousness that prevents us from enjoying life to the fullest. This is about and for the millions of people in the world who have killed their love with their own hands, and who are now miserable. They never wanted to kill it, there was no intention to kill their love, but in their unconsciousness they started possessing. Husbands possess their wives, wives possess their husbands, and parents possess their children. Teachers are trying in every possible way to possess their students. Politicians are trying to possess countries. Religions are trying to possess millions of people and control every aspect their lives. This book shows that life can only thrive in freedom. Love never allows anyone to possess it, because love is our very soul. For Osho, the basis of all our neuroses or psychoses is simple: our souls are not nourished. Love, the basic nourishment, is missing. Osho comprehensively trounces the so-called religious and philosophical approaches to life. All that is of worth is to be found, not in the extraordinary, but in the ordinary; not in fantastical ideas of the “other world” beyond death, but in this very world that we find ourselves in here and now. In short, this book shows that making a simple yet utterly basic shift in our lives will awaken the silence in our beings and bring joy into our every moment.
Download or read book A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA revelatory collection of essays and poems by a master of Eastern philosophyDIV /divDIVIn these writings, Gibran offers verses and lyric prose that possess all the grandeur of rich music. Here are the great truths and heartening joys drawn from the tears and sufferings of man. Each work sparkles with simile and symbolism, from “Seven Reprimands,”containing wise rules to live by, to “The Sayings of the Brook,”about the secrets to beauty, wealth, and virtue. These are profound exaltations of a great soul, and a trove of wisdom as relevant today as when it was first written./div /div
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gibran s Little Book of Love written by Khalil Gibran and published by ONEWorld Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profoundhan when he wrote on love. Now, for the first time, his reflections on lovend friendship have been gathered together in one volume. In this beautifulollection of quotations from both poetry and prose, illustrated with theoet's own original paintings, Gibran celebrates love in all its forms andoods, with the same simplicity and lyrical beauty that made The Prophetoved by people around the world. Inspiring and moving, Gibran's words onove will speak to friends and lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran written by Suheil Bushrui and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the world's most popular writers Bushrui and Jenkins have produces a biography that meticulously explores the complex intricacies of this philosopher-poet. Offering fresh insights into his life, times and work, this unique book sets new criteria in evaluating Gibran.
Download or read book Uncivil Mirth written by Ross Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ridicule is a ubiquitous feature of modern politics. Few participants in a political contest can resist the temptation to ridicule their opponents in order to demean them, persuade others to regard them with scorn, or expose their hypocrisy. Yet ridicule also has the potential to undermine the conditions necessary for politics itself, converting disputants into belligerents and debate into the silence of mutual disdain. Unsurprisingly, then, ridicule has not only been common in political debate but has often been at the centre of such debate as well. In contemporary debate, some commentators worry that citizens are reaching for ridicule and contemptuous dismissal at the expense of more earnest forms of political engagement. Theorists of deliberative democracy have warned that there might be something inherently uncivil, trivializing, or morally objectionable about the use of ridicule in political debate. Others are more inclined to accept that a society characterized by vibrant political contestation will not lack for ridiculers deriding, shaming, and insulting each other. They counsel that ridicule is more urgent, and necessary, now than ever, particularly as a weapon against authoritarian personalities who are least able to tolerate it. This book brings some much-needed historical contextualization to this debate by revisiting a moment in which the place of ridicule in politics was subjected to more intense theoretical scrutiny than any other: eighteenth-century Britain. The relaxing of censorship and deregulation of the printing trade in the 1690s led to an explosion of political and religious satires, many of which were mobilized in the political contest over the recently passed Toleration Act. This new vogue for ridicule led numerous critics to warn that indulging in it excessively could disfigure one's character, undermine religion, and sow civil discord. But ridicule also had vocal defenders, none more influential than the Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Far from merely accepting ridicule as the unfortunate by-product of free public debate, Shaftesbury defended the "trial of ridicule" as a useful method for exposing the conceitedness of fanatics and overly zealous clerics, the two groups most threatening to toleration. From David Hume to Mary Wollstonecraft, Carroll traces Shaftesbury's impact, examining how the Earl's many followers and critics throughout the eighteenth century responded to the challenge of using ridicule responsibly in political and religious controversy"--
Download or read book The Storm written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Storm gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society.
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Prophet’ is a collection of prose poetry offering spiritual insights into a range of subjects. Through 26 fables, Gibran explores everything from love, marriage, and children to the nature of good and evil, friendship and death. An extraordinary work, it lyrically suggests that we should welcome being present on the Earth and, only after we die will we understand the greater meaning behind our personal highs and lows. An eminently quotable book for those who want to delve into the idea of spiritual enrichment. The book was adapted into a film by the Mexican actor and producer Salma Hayek. The voices of Liam Neeson and Frank Langella were also used in the animated film. Born in Lebanon, but to move to the USA, Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was an important figure in the Romantic movement of the early 20th Century. Although he regarded himself more as a painter than an author, his writing challenged the established rigidity of traditional Arabic literature. In his works, he explored the theory of the loss of natural beauty in the modern world, alienation, and personal discord. Influenced by the Romantic writings of 19th Century European authors, Gibran is widely recognised as one of the most intellectually-sensitive writers of his time.
Download or read book Prophet written by Robin Waterfield and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-03-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterfield offers the definitive biography of a writer whose visions helped shape the philosophy of the New Age and whose legend lives on in "The Prophet, " one of the greatest bestsellers of all time. 16-page photo insert.
Download or read book The Essential Kahlil Gibran written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, was a Lebanese essayist, novelist and mystic poet. This collection of Gibran's words from such poems as Secrets of the Heart', 'Spirits Rebellious' and 'Broken Wings', as well as his autobiography and various essays, was compiled by Joseph Shiban, a longtime student of the author's work. A perfect introduction to his passionately religious and often mystic outlook, Gibran's writings on love, work, death and other subjects illuminate the human experience.'
Download or read book Kahlil Gibran s Little Book of Secrets written by Kahili Gibran and published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of Gibran's words on life's big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of life. This book guides readers through life's big issues: meaning and mortality, good and evil, and discovering an authentic spiritual path"--
Download or read book Sand and Foam written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of "The Prophet" - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below.
Download or read book The Eye of the Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eye of the Prophet is a luminous collection of Gibran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now into English. Here the author is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, seeking the best in people, refusing to separate humankind from the natural world. Ordinary work and life, he says, has the potential to be inherently noble, if we can learn to enact our affairs with the sublimity of nature's creations. Gibran’s descriptions celebrate the dignity and freedom of animals, birds, the seasons, oceans, clouds. His is a poet’s eye; he abhors the “tentacles of government” and calls on citizens to question all ideologies. In this book he writes about life’s great moments and passages (The First Kiss, The First Glance, The Mystery of Love, Youth); eternal essences (Earth, The Nature of Woman, Marriage, Love, Truth, Poetry), and grapples with nationalism, religion, and spiritual growth. The Eye of the Prophet blends Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist ideals into a great spiritual tapestry that transcends all cultural divisions. With its vibrant, rhythmic language, it speaks to our challenging times as a worthy companion to The Prophet.
Download or read book Tears and Laughter written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis classic work showcases the early brilliance and philosophical foundation of Kahlil Gibran, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth centuryDIV /divDIVKahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet and one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary, inspiring writers, effortlessly blends his unique perspective on Eastern and Western philosophy in this early collection of work, written when he was just twenty years old. From delicate turns of phrase to strong assertions of equality, delightful rejoicings to frightening prophecies, Gibran’s poetry and prose reveal his eternal hunger for love and beauty./divDIV /divDIVThis expanded edition includes key works of social justice such as “The Bride’s Bed” and firmly establishes Gibran’s role as champion of human rights and individual liberty./divDIV /div /div
