“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Herbert Read's introduction to the understanding of art provides a basis for the appreciation of pictures and sculpture by examining the elements that go into their making. The book provides a concise survey of the evolution of art, from cave drawings to
The selection in this volume features an anthology of four short stories published originally in Arabic as "Spirits Rebellious" (1908) and two collections of parables... "The Forerunner" and "The Madman" (1932).
Exquisite writings on love, marriage, and the spiritual union of souls add a fresh dimension to our understanding of the philosophy of love and the transformation of one's life through its all-encompassing power.
In Jesus Son of Man Jesus is portrayed through the words of 77 contemporaries who knew him. Gibran allows the reader to see Jesus through the eyes of a group of people, enemies and friends alike. Each has an opinion about Jesus based on their own experien
Halil Cibran, gençlik döneminin ürünü ve sonraki yapıtlarının habercisi olan Meczup'ta, toplum önünde büründüğü maskelerden kurtulup gerçek benliğini kucaklamayı başaran insanoğlunu anlatır. Kendini her türlü yüzeysellikten arınd�
An early collection of Kahlil Gibran's writings showcases the many styles of this prolific thinker, all profoundly beautiful Kahlil Gibran reveals his vision of the soul and understanding of the world-past, present, and future-in this rich sampling of mor
For Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), no single religious tradition revealed the whole truth, so he wove together insights from Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, American Transcendentalism and the folklore of his native Lebanon to create his own universal A
The Eye of the Prophet is a startling new collection of Gribran's writings translated from Arabic into French and now to English. Here Gibran is the poetic, philosophical moralist, grounded in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, questing for the best in hu
