✔ Prose poetry fables written by a Lebanese American poet ✔ It's about something we all have deep inside, we might call it spiritual, or simply, human ✔ "For you can only be free... when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment"
★★★★★ Lebanese American poet. It's not about reasons and rationality or even religions, it's something that is rooted deeper in us as human, what we might call spiritual, or simply human, via words of one man, The Prophet.
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It's a book of 26 prose poetry fables written by a Lebanese American poet.
What it recounts is something eternal and universal. I feel that it's because it's mixing the warmth of monotheism and wisdom of more Asian philosophy? He is a Christian from Lebanon, West Asia (or Middle East) an ancient place of all things mixed and flourished, who moved to the US. His unique life must have influenced.
It's not about reasons and rationality, or even about some specific religions, it's something that is rooted deeper in us as human, what we might call spiritual, or simply human, via words of one man, The Prophet. But his words are not shocking, they are more like ideas we always felt deeply inside, things somehow we've always known. It's a kind of the books you come back to time to time in your life, also in that sense it's conveniently divided into themes.
And here are some that really stayed with me
P51 For you can only be free... when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.
P55 Your pain is the breaking of the shell that enclosed your understanding... ...the cup he brings, though it burns your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
P75 .. beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil.
P93 If these be vague words, then seek not to clear them. Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end
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