The Prophet Quotes

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love." (Chapter 2)
"Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music." (Chapter 3)
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." (Chapter 5)
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." (Chapter 7)
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Chapter 16)
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams." (Chapter 17)
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge." (Chapter 18)
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime." (Chapter 20)
"...the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but to-day's memory and to-morrow is to-day's dream." (Chapter 21)
"...regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement." (Chapter 24)
"People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." (Chapter 25)
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion." (Chapter 26)
"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children." (Chapter 26)
"In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond..." (Chapter 27)
"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." (Chapter 27)
"To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy." (Chapter 28)