Kahlil Gibran's : little books of life

Author

• Douglas-Klotz, Neil

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9781571748300

Series

Subject(s)

• LIFE-RELIGIOUS ASPECTS-CHRISTIANITY
• POETRY

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

198p.

Dimension

18cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Cover; Inside front flap; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Listening to Nature's Life; The Law of Nature; Said a Blade of Grass; Three Dogs; Shadows; Song of the Rain; A Hyena and a Crocodile; Two Oysters; Trees are Poems; The Red Earth; The Full Moon; The Supreme Act; The Pomegranate; Solitude; Living Water; Other Seas; The River; Contentment and Thrift; The Lotus-Heart; The Shadow; The Serpent and the Lark; Frogs: On the Nature of Disturbance; Song of the Flower; Spring in Lebanon; 2. Beauty and the Song of Life; Life's Purpose; Singing; Secrets of the Beauty of Life; The Poet. Art and LifePleasure is a Freedom Song; SInging; Before the Throne of Beauty; The Flute; Beauty; Soul of the Dancer; An Hour Devoted to Beauty and Love; 3. Life's Human Journey; Your Daily Life is your Temple; Burying Dead Selves; Giving Up a Kingdom; Possessions; Treasure; The Value of Time; With Senses Continually Made New; Work is Love; Builders of Bridges; Renown; Life is a Procession; Song of Humanity; Singing in the Silence; Modesty; Between; Ignorance; When You Meet a Friend; Strangers to Life; Life is a Resolution; Longing; To American Immigrants from the Middle East (1926). 4. Seasons of LifeChanging with the Seasons; No Miracles Beyond the Seasons; Youth and Knowledge; Seasons; Autumn and Spring; Time; All Your Hours are Wings; Be Dark; Day and Night; Shell-Life; Tides of Breath; Shoreless Without a Self; Finding Fault; Every Year I Had Waited for Spring ... ; 5. Paradoxical Life; Life Comes Walking; Talk; A Tale of Two Tales; Confession; Yesterday and Today; Gifts of the Earth; Giving and Gaining; High and Low; Seeking; Freedom; Limits; Owl Eyes; Voices; Ocean and Foam; Blessing Darkness; Agreement; Jesus and Pan; 6. The Life of the Soul; Resurrection of Life. A FragmentThe Greater Sea; Truth is Like the Stars; Have Mercy on Me, My Soul; Trust the Dreams; The Greater Self; Rising; Children of Space; Leave Me, My Blamer; The Forerunner; Walk Facing the Sun; Soul's Dewdrop; Roots Between; Self is a Sea; The Longing of the Giant Self; Angels and Devils; Blessed Mountain; Song of the Soul; Sources of the Selections; Selection Notes; About the Author; About the Compiler; Inside back flap; Backcover.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	03498/18	892.78509 Dou K	Library - 8th Floor	Available