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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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- “…long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?”
What part of a hard season would you actually miss if it vanished overnight?
- “A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”
What have you learned in quiet that you still don’t know how to say out loud?
- “These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.”
What do you almost tell people—and why does it stay in your chest?
- “All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.”
When has love shown you something about yourself you couldn’t have seen alone?
- “You often say, ‘I would give, but only to the deserving.’ The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.”
Who do you hold back from—and what would change if you gave the way a tree gives fruit?
- “…and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life.”
When does your work feel like you’re taking care of your own life, not just getting through the day?
- “Work is love made visible.”
If someone watched you work for ten minutes, what kind of love would they see?
- “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”
What joy in your life is standing on an old sorrow?
- “Your house is your larger body.”
What does your space say about you that you don’t say yourself?
- “You can muffle the drum and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”
What in you keeps singing even when the room wants it quiet?
- On Beauty: Which analogy do you most identify with?
- “Let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise from its own ashes.”
When do you need more fire—and when do you need the fire to have a spine?
- “Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
What broke you open that you wouldn’t actually close back up?
- “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”
Which truth of yours still has room to bend?
- “If he [a teacher] is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
Who pointed you at your own thinking instead of handing you theirs?
- “If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.”
What would you touch more carefully if you admitted it won’t last?
- “That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.”
What shaky part of you has quietly been doing the real work?
ℚuotes
People of Orphalese...
People of Orphalese...
People of Orphalese...
...be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.
On Religion
People of Orphalese...
People of Orphalese...
Have I spoken this day of aught else? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?
On Death
People of Orphalese...
On Death
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
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