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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Khalil Gibran wrote with a lyrical touch that feeds the soul. A must read for the philosophical reader as well as anyone wanting to feed their own soul. I found this book a fascinating history of the life of Gibran. It talks about his early youth in Lebanon, his immigrating to New York and of the writings he did in both English and Lebanese.
While I found the book an interesting read, liberally sprinkled with quotes from his works, it was not at all what I expected when I ordered it. The Amazon page implies this is a book written by Gibran, which it is not. This book lifts my spirit and helps it to soar. Assists me with personal insights and spiritual growth.
I frequently use selected writings from this book in groups, which I facilitate as a counselor. One person found this helpful.
Gibran is one of my top 5 favorite poets of all time and this was another great addition to the collection. Though not by Gibran himself, this a brief biography and collection of works by another author. Gibrans' intimate self-realization is dramatically brought to the forefront for the many to learn of their sacred presence within an outer world experience.
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My friend was very pleased. I saw you, my friend, sitting on a throne of glory surrounded by people extolling your charity, enumerating your gifts, gazing upon you as if they were in the presence of a prophet lifting their souls up into the planets and stars. I saw you looking at them, contentment and strength upon your face, as if you were to them as the soul is to the body.
On the second look I saw your secluded self standing beside your throne, suffering in its seclusion and quaking in its loneliness. I saw that self stretching its hands as if begging from unseen ghosts. I saw it looking above the shoulders of the people to a far horizon, empty of everything except its solitude and seclusion. I saw you, my friend, passionately in love with a beautiful woman, filling her palms with your kisses as she looked at you with sympathy and affection in her eyes and sweetness of motherhood on her lips; I said, secretly, that love has erased his solitude and removed his seclusion and he is now within the eternal soul which draws toward itself, with love, those who were separated by solitude and seclusion.
On the second look I saw behind your soul another lonely soul, like a fog, trying in vain to become a drop of tears in the palm of that woman.
Your life, my friend, is a residence far away from any other residence and neighbors. Your inner soul is a home far away from other homes named after you.
9 quotes from Mirrors of the Soul: 'Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not. Start by marking “Mirrors of the Soul” as Want to Read: If this hadn't been my very first book to read of Gibran's, I may have enjoyed it more. Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer.
If this residence is dark, you cannot light it with your neighbor's lamp; if it is empty you cannot fill it with the riches of your neighbor; were it in the middle of a desert, you could not move it to a garden planted by someone else. Your inner soul, my friend, is surrounded with solitude and seclusion. Were it not for this solitude and this seclusion you would not be you and I would not be I.
If it were not for that solitude and seclusion, I would, if I heard your voice, think myself to be speaking; yet, if I saw your face, i would imagine that I were looking into a mirror. For heaven's sake, my heart, keep secret your love, and hide the secret from those you see and you will have better fortune. He who reveals secrets is considered a fool; silence and secrecy are much better for him who falls in love.
For heaven's sake, my heart, if someone asks, "What has happened?
If you are asked, "Who is she? For heaven's sake, my love, conceal your passion; your sickness is also your medicine because love to the soul is as wine in a glass - what you see is liquid, what is hidden is its spirit. For heaven's sake, my heart, conceal your troubles; then, should the seas roar and the skies fall, you will be safe.
It is how you have always felt. If this residence is dark, you cannot light it with your neighbor's lamp; if it is empty you cannot fill it with the riches of your neighbor; were it in the middle of a desert, you could not move it to a garden planted by someone else. Oftentimes added to the dilemma is the fact that the woman is being bombarded by signs, dreams and visions of a child that she and her Twin are to have together. To ask other readers questions about Mirrors of the Soul , please sign up. You have the same creative drive, aspirations and dreams; you are asking yourselves the same questions.
The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.