The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
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“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
Source →Recommended by 8 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Tim Ferriss
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Recommended by 14 sources and appears in For Men, Books Recommended by Investors, and Most Recommended Books.
The Prophet is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 108 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print. The prophet, Al Mustafa, has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a...
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“A fantastic book. I would recommend people get the edition with the illustrations by the author. | A few of my favorite books .... Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. It's so great to get outside my head for... | A particular book I've gifted most to other people | Epic life wisdom told through poetry. | One of my favorite books. | One of the first 'spiritual' books I read as a teenager, which gave me plenty of seeds for thought from short, but tothepoint, topics. | This book reads like a modernday poetic religious tome. It’s up there with the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, and the Qur’an. It is written in the style where it has a feel of religiosity and truth, but it was very approachable, beautiful, nondenominational, and nonsectarian. I loved this book. He has a gift for poetically describing what children are like, what lovers are like, what marriage should be like, how you should treat your enemies and your friends, how you should work with money, what can you think of every time you have to kill something to eat it. I felt, like the great religious books, it gave a very deep, very philosophical, but very true answer to how to approach the major problems in life. I recommend the prophet to anybody, whether you’re religious or not. Whether you are Christian, Hindu, Jewish, or Atheist. I think it’s a beautiful book, and it’s worth reading”
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