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Almustafa the Prophet, or “Chosen One”, is about to return to his native land. Before leaving his place of exile, he delivers 26 homilies to the people he is about to place. The message is that through like, each of us can find our own potential or divinity.Amazon.com Review
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each questions a question of the heart, and the man’s wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran’s gift to us, as well, for Gibran’s prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world’s fantastic religions. On the most basic topics–marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure–his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description “perfectly inspired.” Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions–as millions of additional readers already have. –Brian Bruya
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I appreciate getting the book at the fantastic fee. I’m really not complaining but the book was reasonably yellow and the jacket was torn in various places. It looked like it was on the shelf for reasonably a while……..Maureen
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
To accurately gauge the type of person who would delight in “The Prophet”, please read the earlier review written by a person who is obviously a fruitcake. I felt “obliged” to read this back in the early ’70s by some misty eyed lover of spirituality. I can’t even remember the gender of this seeker after spiritual truth. I know that I only read about 2 or 3 pages and prepared my “review” for the next time I met up with this seeker. Please, you must have something better to do with your time than read “The Prophet”. Go do it!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
i ordered only one book, to be sent to my “giftee’s” take up, but was sent two books, one as a gift, and one to my residence. When I tried to stop it, it was too late, as it was already into shipping mode.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Gibran reveals the fundamental optimism that shapes the rest of his thinking in his response to one of the city judges:
“Like the ocean is your god-self;
It remains for ever undefiled.
And like the ether it lifts but the winged.
Even like the sun is your god-self;
It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent.”
This belief in a holy inner spiritual component of every man provides the foundation of such assertions as the moral nondistinction between criminal and victim. This may all sound excellent, but in practice has small to do with what we observe in the world around us (and is completely unworkable both individually and in society!)
The traditional Christian view, dull though it may at first seem, is that there is no perfect consecration within us; rather, we holistic unities of imperfection and uprising. Granted, we consist of both material and immaterial substance, but the material and immaterial are inseperable except by death. Gibran deals with the rational problems arising from his irreconcilable view of the sprit versus the world by, of course, positing reincarnation upon us.
Christian theology deals with all the issues addressed by Gibran, but lacking building us all out to be God. And lacking relying on the terrible concept of reincarnation (the only thing I can reflect of that would be worse than enduring a lifetime of suffering would be to suffer an endless procession of lifetimes of suffering). Sure, there are many wonderful, truthful passages in this book, but nobody should make the mistake of assuming it to be inspired. So let the reader beware!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This book is a sort of Hallmark Greeting card compilation of the type of vacuous garbage-thought that made the 1970s a cultural disaster. Are you a sentimental pacifist who thinks Gandhi was swell, but never heard of the Moriori? Do you reflect of like as some sort of emotional flatulence that comes and goes the way weather does? Do you reflect evil is only a result of people being insufficiently nice to one another? Are your views on child rearing that you should let the kids do what they want because they’re individuals? Do you reflect business is evil and soul destroying, and hurts the world more than it helps? Do you reflect religion is terrible, but spiiiiirituality is excellent? Do you reflect criminals shouldn’t be punished, because it’s not really their fault? Do you reflect a mindless pursuit of pleasure is necessary for a healthy life? Well, if you judge any of these things, and delight in saccharine sweet sing-songey prose, this book is for you. It comes in an attractive hard take in, building it appear to be a very serious book, on the same level as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but with more naked lady pictures inside. It will provide you with many prim moments of doltish piety in your cloud cuckoo land. You may even be able to use this tome to pick up on people who are as morally defective as you are.
Personally, I prefer my wisdom to be, you know, at least abstractedly wise. If I want florid saccharine language, I’ll go read some Browning or additional Victorian poetry. You can pick up antique volumes of such stuff for cheap, since books which required effort to write or read are unfashionable these days. They also look nicer on your bookshelf. As a bonus, it might really be excellent for you to read Browning, whereas reading Gibran is sort of like giving yourself a mental venereal disease.
Please, humanity, restore my faith in basic human decency: stop reading this book. This book destroys souls and stunts aesthetics. If you must give copies of the book to people, give it to people you don’t like. Give this book in the same spirit the British sold Opium to the Chinese. The end result will be much the same if they take the precepts of this silly book seriously.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5