The Prophet

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores o...”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of...”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And When he spe...”

“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the...”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand a...”

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And i...”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the see...”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”

“He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”

“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand...”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”

“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your brea...”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill i...”

“He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.”