The Prophet is a wonderful book written by Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran. It talks about our spiritual thoughts and feelings. The writer has shared his philosophical opinions and ideas about life through the answers of a man named Almastafa.
In this book, Almastafa, considered a sage, was returning home after 12 years. So, all the people of Orphalese asked him many questions about different topics. Then he gave clear answers to every question and returned.
His answers are very useful and important in our life. I think everyone should study this book to understand more about life on earth. There are many quotes that can change our lives and teach us what we should know for a happy and radiant life.
Some of my favorite quotes from this book are as follows:-
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
When love beckons you,follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
For even as love crowns you so shall crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
When you love you shouldn’t say, ‘God is in my heart’ but rather , ‘I am in the heart of God’.
My favorite quotes related to different topics that were answered by Almustafa are given below separately:-
- Marriage
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
2. Children
You may house their bodies but not their souls.
3. Giving
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now that the season of giving may be yours and not your in heritors.
4. Eating and Drinking
But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it be an act of worship.
5. Work
But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned by you when that dream was born.
6. Joy and Sorrow
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep in your bed.
7. Houses
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul and then walks grinning in the funeral.
8. Clothes
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
9. Buying and selling
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
10. Crime and punishment
You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked.
11. Laws
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.
12. Freedom
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief.
13. Reason and Passion
And since you are a breath in God’s sphere and a leaf on God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
14. Pain
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
15. Self-knowledge
Say not, ‘I have found the truth’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth’.
16. Teaching
If he is indeed wise he doesn’t bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
17. Talking
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
18. Friendship
Your friend is your needs answered.
19. Time
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and future with longing.
20. Good and Evil
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
21. Prayer
God listens not to your word, save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
22. Pleasure
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and ecstasy.
23. Beauty
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
24. Religion
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
25. Death
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
If you try to realize and apply these quotes, it will definitely change your life.
