Gibran....the Prophet of Love....and Knowledge !!!

Kahlil Gibran occupies an exalted place in the 'holistic literature'...at least ....is greatly loved by lovers of life....and holism !

Gibran on Love...

Gibran on Friendship....

Gibran on Marriage...

Gibran on Work....

Gibran on Governance...

He is surely a Prophet !!!

Here is a fact file.... ( Source Internet )

Khalil Gibran (born Gubran Khalil Gubran bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad; ( January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Mount Lebanon mutasarrifate), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career.

He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in the 1960s counterculture.

Gibran is considered to be the third most widely read poet in history, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

Some Quotes by Gibran....

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

But 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 of your souls.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Somehow...it seems quite obvious....that Gibran was advocating Positive Ego !!!