Author(s): KAHLIL GIBRAN

Spirituality

The Prophet, a masterwork by Kahlil Gibran, is one of our time's most treasured classics. It was first published in 1923 and has since been translated into over twenty languages, with over nine million copies sold in the United States alone.

The Prophet is a compilation of philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational lyrical pieces. Love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death are among the topics covered in Gibran's musings.