From my mother to me, and now to my daughter: words that help.

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	• The Prophet Kahlil Gibran Random House Audio, 1985 average customer review:based on 261 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

left speechless

Please excuse me for writing a review that isn't really "a review." Others may, but I find no words to even begin to describe this book - they would just manage to do it injustice. All that I can say is that it is truly a Gift; a Gift left for humanity.

I can already forsee that this is going to be the book of resource I reach for when I need a lifting.

Peace,
David

Beautiful philosophy

I bought this book for my son who had his stolen from him and was in despair. He likes the beautiful poetic resonance and in looking through the book, I agree. This is a book for sensitive souls, beautifully written and illustrated by the author.

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On Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

This book was originally given to me by my husband after he heard a recording of it many years ago. I found this book to be the basis of living a good life and have through the years, referred back to it whenever I felt the need to be reinforced in my thinking on the many subjects it contained. My favorite chapters are: On Love, On Marriage, and On Children, in Gibran's words,"For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday".
I have given copies of this book to many friends and it always surprised me that some view it as too idealistic while others have loved it the way I did and were happy to read the soothing words whenever they felt they had lost their focus.
I LOVE this book!

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From my mother to me, and now to my daughter: words that help.

I am almost 51 years old. When i was 18 and deeply conflicted, weighted down with the confusions that can only be so impossibly painful at that young age, my mother gave me a hardback copy of "The Prophet". I've carried it with through all these years as a treasured companion. It helped me make sense of the non-sense my life was back there in 1974, and has comforted me more then a couple times in the years since then, as well.

Today i'm here at Amazon to buy the same book for my 19-year-old daughter. She's a bright, warm, funny, sweet girl who is undergoing no small amount of angst as her comfy girlhood world slips away. Her friends have begun to scatter to the winds--some to jobs and some to college--and her own adult responsibilities loom ever taller.

Why, she has asked me, why do i feel so sad? I have no reason to be so sad--but i am. Why?

And my mind has flashed to:
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

And how else can it be?"

So i want this book for my wonderful daughter. I think she's ready for it and, better, i think it will help the turmoil in her soul as it did for me when i was her age, and for my mother before me.

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The Prophet

The prophet by Kahlil Gibran is a very beautiful, inspiring writing which really resonated within me, it felt as truth. I feel that with good patience and deep contemplation, this book can lead you to a profound understanding of your own life and all others around you.
I first read about Kahlil Gibran in a book called The Lost Teachings of Atlantis. That book answered all my spiritual questions about the meaning of Life, who and what we are and more in a very easily understandable manner and all of it corresponds with the writing of Kahlil Gibran. I HIGHLY recommend reading that book also.

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