The Prophet

5 Responses to “The Prophet”

1. Maureen A. Wilkie says:

   June 29, 2010 at 2:08 am

   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
2. Anonymous says:

   June 29, 2010 at 3:58 am

   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
3. Anthony J. Sciolino says:

   June 29, 2010 at 6:05 am

   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
4. John C. McCurdy says:

   June 29, 2010 at 6:33 am

   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
5. Harley says:

   June 29, 2010 at 7:07 am

   I evidently misread the writeup, I thought it was a hardback. It was a cheap paperback. I got it as a present so I couldn’t send it back but I’m very dissapointed for the cost!
   
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5