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    The Wisdom of Gibran
    The Wisdom of Gibran
    The Wisdom of Gibran
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    An A-to-Z guide to the mystic poet’s maxims and aphorisms  An early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instilled his poetry and art with his experiences in both the East and West. This selection of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms is drawn from such poems as “Secrets of the Heart,” “Spirits Rebellious,” and “Broken Wings,” as well as from his autobiography and essays. Gibran’s words express a strong spirituality and mysticism and his voice offers a direct and at times optimistic view of the brotherhood of man. Addressing everything from love and death to Jesus, motherhood, and nature, Gibran’s wisdom remains thought provoking and inspirational.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilosophical Library Open Road
    Release dateSep 7, 2010
    ISBN9781453201619
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      The Wisdom of Gibran - Philosophical Library

      The Wisdom of

      GIBRAN

      Aphorisms and Maxims

      EDITED BY JOSEPH SHEBAN

      Philosophical Library

      Contents

      Key

      Introduction

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      To my children,

      Jeneen, George and Faram,

      I dedicate this work.

      KEY

      INTRODUCTION

      Khalil Gibran, whose books have been international bestsellers for more than fifty years, was born near the Holy Cedars of Lebanon. While Khalil was a young boy, his family migrated to the United States. After several years in Boston schools, Gibran’s family sent him back to Lebanon to be educated at a college in Beirut. Later, he was sent to Paris for further education. Gibran then returned to the United States, where he applied his brush to painting and his pen to writing in Arabic. Through his first art exhibit, in Boston, he met Miss Mary Haskell, who became patron of his further art studies in Paris.

      Because of his cosmopolitan background and education, Khalil became first a student of and then an interpreter of the Middle East, Europe and America. Thus, through him, the twain, East and West in great fulfillment, met. He brought to his readers of Arabic the simplicity of English expression, a refreshing freedom of thought and a frankness which demanded reform. In Arabic, his style and concepts were revolutionary. To his readers in English, he brought the poetry, family traditions, sagacity and philosophy of the Middle East: the great sweep of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, as well as their ancient roots.

      Khalil Gibran’s songs were of the earth; he loved his fellow man, to whom he carried the torch of freedom for all peoples alike:

      I love you, my Brother, he wrote, wherever you are, whether you kneel in your church, worship in your synagogue or pray in your mosque.

      Gibran’s essays, poems and stories are salted with nuggets of wisdom; thus his writing, although simple, is unique and immortal. Within the covers of this work there is a collection of those nuggets, reflecting his philosophy and his unique expression. For example, in a love story, he wrote:

      The first kiss is the beginning of the Song of Life. It is a word uttered by four lips proclaiming the heart as a throne and love as a king. It is the first flower at the tip of the branch of the tree of life.

      Writing of government, he urged, long before John F. Kennedy was to repeat his words: Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.

      Of tyrants, he wrote: You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free.

      As a young man in Lebanon, Khalil Gibran loved a beautiful girl, but her parents refused their permission for marriage because of Khalil’s poverty. Later, through letters they exchanged, Gibran came to love another woman, but he was too poor and too ill to travel to Lebanon to marry her. Yet the paradox is that, though Gibran lost the two loves of his life because of his poverty, his books have earned more than two million dollars in royalties.

      Gibran lived all his mature life in a small, fourth-floor walk-up studio in New York but he dreamed always of returning to the beautiful mountains of Lebanon, the homeland of his heart which he described thus:

      Lebanon, among Western poets, is an imaginary place whose real existance vanished with the passing of David, Solomon and the Prophets, as the Garden of Eden was hidden through the fall of Adam and Eve. Lebanon is a poetical expression and not the name of a mountain.

      And:

      Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

      The body of Khalil Gibran now rests in the shadow of the Holy Cedars, his soul, as his Spring in Lebanon, hovering and chanting, in his own words:

      The river continues on its way to the sea, broken the wheel of the mill or not.

      Joseph Sheban

      5020 Sheban Drive

      Youngstown, Ohio

      A

      Action

      A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

      — WM-ST-63

      Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, but their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

      — SH-T-17

      Adolescence

      It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree. It may

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