For Kahlil Gibran, love was a way -- perhaps the supreme way -- of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being. The Beloved is abo...
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Apr 09, 2011
Sarah
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I love Kahlil Gibran. He had such an amazing way with words. He also loved love. As the blurb on the back of this book says...
"For Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), love was a way - perhaps the supreme way - of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being."
Essentially - Gibran was a romantic at heart. I'm totally one of those sappy gals who loves being in love. This book is right up my alley.
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"For Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), love was a way - perhaps the supreme way - of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being."
Essentially - Gibran was a romantic at heart. I'm totally one of those sappy gals who loves being in love. This book is right up my alley.
This here is a short (about 100 page long) coll More...
Sep 29, 2010
Meena
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It makes me think how powerful & fearless Khalil Gibran's was to have wrtten on such themes. Imagine the upraor this book must have caused in the 1900's when they were first published in Arabic. His first and target audience was the Arabic world withen which women did not have the right or the freedom to choose their own partners.These themes still exist even to this day so it is easy to relate to all his writings.A great book of short stories.
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Sep 29, 2010
Hedelisa
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This book ponders the ideas, ideals, preconceptions, conceptions and longings of love. Gibran is a beautiful poet and thinker. 'Sand and Foam' led me to this read.
Dec 26, 2011
Nicole Marie
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A soaring collection of poems, short stories and general musings on the subject of love. Impossible not to be inspired and swayed by Gibran's beautiful prose.
Sep 29, 2010
Melinda
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Gibran stays close to an idea that I've also read in Song of Songs 8:7 - If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
Sep 29, 2010
Matt
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Read the prophet first. This is a short collection of love stories and poems not all being anything especially profound.
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