Khalil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran:On Pleasure

September 10, 2009

I find this a very meaningfull poem.I read this the first time when I was travelling on the ship from Stockholm,Seweden to Helsinki,Finland,in 1988.It meant a lot then and it still does today On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it [...]

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Good and Evil

August 20, 2009

Readers!You may have noticed that I have posted some of the writings of Khalil Gibran.I shall carry on for one reason.When I hit rock bottom 10 years ago,I had become someone totally obsessed with himself.I had become selfish,inpatient,intolerantn to others and generally a angry person. I have made reference to my alcohol dependance in earlier [...]

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Khalil Gibran Biography

August 14, 2009

Khalil Gibran Biography Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon [Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) and subjugated to Ottoman dominion]. His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she begot Gibran from [...]

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Khalil Gibran”On Giving”

August 7, 2009

I have previously made reference to Khalil Gibran and his writings. They are simple in style and changed the way I think about life and others.Below is one of his many poems from The Prophet,by Khalil Gibran.The book has been invaluable to me and has allowed me to grow and enrich my life. Thankyou On [...]

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