Sacred Journeys

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know your pain" Khalil Gibran

Auguries of Innocence William Blake (1757-1827) To see a world in a grain of sandAnd a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state. A hors..

The Garden Of The Prophet Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a noon unto his own day, returned to the isle of his birth in the month of Tichreen, which is the month of remembrance.  And as his ship approached the harbour, he stood upon its prow, and his mariners were about him. And there was a homecoming in his heart.  And he spoke, and the sea was in his voice, and he said: "Be..

Sand And Foam(1926) I AM FOREVER walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my foot-prints, And the wind will blow away the foam. But the sea and the shore will remain Forever. Once I filled my hand with mist. Then I opened it and lo, the mist was a worm. And I closed and opened my hand again, and behold there was a bird. And again I closed and opened my ..

The Forerunner (1920) The Forerunner God's Fool Love The King-hermit The Lion's Daughter Tyranny The Saint The Plutocrat The Greater Self War and the Small Nations Critics Poets The Weather-cock The King of Aradus Out of My Deeper Heart Dynasties Knowledge and Half-knowledge 'Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper. . .' The Scholar and the Poet Values Other Seas Repentance The Dying..

jesus, the son of man (1928)James the son of Zebedee: On the Kingdoms of the WorldAnna the mother of Mary: On the Birth of JesusAssaph called the Orator of Tyre: On the Speech of JesusMary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus for the First TimePhilemon a Greek Apothecary: On Jesus the Master PhysicianSimon who was called Peter: When He and His Brother were CalledCaiaphas: The High Pries..

The New Frontier (1925) There are in the Middle East today two challenging ideas: old and new. The old ideas will vanish because they are weak and exhausted. There is in the Middle East an awakening that defies slumber. This awakening will conquer because the sun is its leader and the dawn is its army. In the fields of the Middle East, which have been a large burial ground, st..

“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” Kahlil Gibran (1883-1930) ㅡ Khalil Gibran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjN2NK0NvA

사랑에 대하여 by 칼릴 지브란 그때 알마이트라 묻기를, 사랑에 대하여 말씀하소서. 고개들어 주위를 둘러보고는, 아름다운 목소리하여 말씀하나니: 사랑이 그대를 부르거든 그를 따르라. 사랑의 길이 비록 험하고 가파를 지라도. 사랑의 나래 펼쳐지려 하거든, 미련없이 그 길을 따를것이라. 그리고, ..

"자녀에 대하여" 칼릴 지브란 그리고, 아이를 가슴에 품은 여인이 묻기를, 자녀에 대하여 말씀하여 주소서. 말씀 하기를, 아이들은 그대 소유가 아님이라. 아이들은 그들 스스로의 삶을 간구하는 생명의 자녀 일지니. 그들은 오직 그대를 거쳐 이세상에 왔을 뿐, 그대로 부터 창조되어진 ..