Quotes from The Prophet

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Work is love made visible.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.