The Forerunner

The Forerunner

by Kahlil Gibran
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/10/2013

Share This eBook:

  $2.99

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.


And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.


Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.


When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.


And when you were a silent word upon life’s quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.


And now we are in God’s hands. You are a sun in His right hand and I an earth in His left hand. Yet you are not more, shining, than I, shone upon.


And we, sun and earth, are but the beginning of a greater sun and a greater earth. And always shall we be the beginning.


You are your own forerunner, you the stranger passing by the gate of my garden.


And I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.

ISBN:
1230000193441
1230000193441
Category:
Religious & spiritual fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-10-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
WDS Publishing
Kahlil Gibran

Poet, philosopher and artist, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 near Mount Lebanon, a region that has produced many prophets. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. Kahlil Gibran died in 1931.

Poet, philosopher and artist, Kahlil Gibran was born near Mount Lebanon. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age, but his fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and his drawings and paintings have been exhibited all over the world.

His many works include The Prophet, his masterpiece of religious inspiration; The Garden of the Prophet; The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems; The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart; Jesus: The Son of Man; The Voice of Kahlil Gibran, an anthology of his writings; The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul; and Spirit Brides. He was for many years the leader of a Lebanese literary circle in New York, where he died in 1931.

This item is delivered digitally

Reviews

Be the first to review The Forerunner.