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Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?
I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
— Kahlil Gibran
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
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Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
Why, has his seminal work, The Prophet :
struck such a chord with generations of readers ?
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
Since it was published in 1923, The Prophet has never been out of print.
The perennial classic has been translated into more than 50 languages and is a staple on international best-seller lists.
It is thought to have sold tens of millions of copies...
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
"It serves various occasions or big moments in one's life so it tends to be a book that is often gifted to a lover,
or for a birth, or death. That is why it has spread so widely, and by word of mouth,"
Dr Mohamed Salah Omri, lecturer in Modern Arabic literature at Oxford University.
Re: Kahlil Gibran - chairman - 05-14-2012
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"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?
I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
— Kahlil Gibran
[/quote]
you turn a romantic now?
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
The Beatles, John F Kennedy and Indira Gandhi :
are among those who have been influenced by its words....
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
Reverend Laurie Sue, an interfaith minister in New York who has conducted hundreds of weddings
with readings from The Prophet :
It is not filled with any kind of dogma, it is available to anyone :
whether they are Jewish or Christian or Muslim."
Re: Kahlil Gibran - Captain - 05-14-2012
hindus out
Re: Kahlil Gibran - ketchim - 05-14-2012
The book is made up of 26 prose poems, delivered as sermons by a wise man called Al Mustapha :
He is about to set sail for his homeland after 12 years in exile on a fictional island
when the people of the island ask him to share his wisdom on the big questions of life :
love, family, work and death !!!