Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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For the past eighty years, the beautiful words of the Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran have graced everything from greeting cards and wedding invitations to inspirational wall hangings and corporate motivational literature. By one account, Gibran is the third bestselling poet of all time, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.In this beautiful gift book, we discover the essential wisdom about what it means to be alive. For Gibran life is the energy that saturates all we see and feel--as well as what we can only imagine. Here are over 100 fables, aphorisms, parables, stories, and poems from the author of The Prophet.Here on display is that visionary voice of comfort, love, and tolerance.Listing to Nature's LifeTaking time to listen to the natural world reveals a new dimension of beinghuman. It is as if all of nature were already within us, reminding us of ourconnection to the one life we share.SolitudeSolitude is a silent stormthat breaks down all our dead branches.Yet it sends our living roots deeperinto the living heart of the living earth.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-05
Mått130 x 180 x 15 mm
Vikt182 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagRed Wheel/Weiser
ISBN9781571748300

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Neil Douglas-Klotz is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies (comparative Semitic hermeneutics) and psychology as well as a poet and musician. He is the author of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus, The Aramaic Jesus Book of Days, Prayers of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Gospel and coauthor of The Tent of Abraham with Sister Joan Chittister and Rabbi Arthur Waskow. He is the past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion.

"Lebanese poet, Maronite Catholic, and follower of Sufi mysticism Kahlil Gibran died in 1931, yet his most memorable work, The Prophet, continues to form and inform spiritual seekers. Author Douglas-Klotz (director, Edinburgh Inst. for Advanced Learning) identifies the work as "inspirational fiction" and intersperses quotes from the book with lesser-known works to demonstrate Gibran's reflections on the topics of life and living. Douglas-Klotz admits that while some of these sayings are comforting, others are confusing, even disturbing. This is, he claims, the mystic's willingness to engage chaos as well as peace, signifying Gibran's embrace of all of life. Short apothegms ("We live only to discover beauty/ All else is a form of waiting") are part of chapter-long meditations. A few do not easily reveal their deeper insights ("If I were you/ I would not find fault/ with the sea/ at low tide"). Selection notes provide an important guide for further reading; an "About the Author" endnote is also helpful. VERDICT Poems, parables, and stories for mystical hearts." --Library Journal, Sandra Collins, Byzantine Catholic Seminary Lib., Pittsburgh