Saturday, March 4, 2017


Kahlil Gibran
     Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer who died in 1931. He is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.  Elvis Presley is known for his gift giving of cars,houses and jewellery but in the early sixties he also handed out many of Gibrans books to family, friends and fans. While John Lennon included a line from Gibrans Poem, Sand And Foam in the Beatles song Julia. Its a strong possibility that John F Kennedy in his inaugural address took a passage from Gibrans, A New Frontier. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?
Kahlil writings has had a big influence on my life and I think his influence stretches alot further than many think. 

Some of My Favourite Gibran Passages 


  • They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
  • There must be something unusually sacred in salt if it is contained in our tears and in the sea
  • Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others
  •  Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.  
  • The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven. 
  •  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. 
  • Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. 
  •  In a single drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Gibran on Children
  • They came thru you but not from you & though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Let these be your desires
To wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving 
  • Many times the Christ has come to the world, and He has walked many lands. And always He has been deemed a stranger and a madman.

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