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
reality understanding listening
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
inspirational spiritual journey
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
science religion lips
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
struggle men political
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
inspiration hymns addiction
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.
beauty faces gazing
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
people
To be closer to god, be closer to people.
respect teacher teaching
Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.
opportunity trying approach
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
communication wings space
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
stars night light
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
circles lakes pebbles
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.
men two light
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
jesus book compassion
Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.