Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibranwas a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1883
CityBsharri, Lebanon
CountryLebanon
love beauty eternity-of-life
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
beautiful spiritual moon
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
sowing doe sowing-seeds
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
inspirational life spiritual
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
fall writing mind
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
wise wisdom truth
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
love desire wedding-poetry
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
jesus fear humble
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
soul lotuses prophet
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
love spiritual embrace
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
teacher giving
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
faith stars heart
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
inspirational wise wisdom
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he 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.
inspirational death spiritual
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.