Reflections on Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

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Written in 1923 by the Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet is one of the world’s most beloved classics. Through the voice of the prophet Almustafa, Kahlil Gibran explores many of the themes closest to our lives: love and hate, work and creativity, joy and sorrow, friendship and enmity, reason and passion, eating and drinking.
Osho loves Gibran, but, unlike the millions before him who have just extolled the beauty and splendor of his words, he sees not only where Gibran soars and takes flight, but also the times where his words fall again to the earth -- still beautiful, but ultimately missing an existential depth.
In Reflections, Osho examines Gibran’s poetic exploration of life -- and goes further. He looks at whether Gibran is “a mystic of the highest order,” simply a poet “who speaks in words of gold” -- or perhaps an extraordinary mixture of the two.
Throughout this book, Osho comprehensively trounces the so-called religious and philosophical approaches to life. All that is of worth is to be found not in the extraordinary but in the ordinary; not in fantastical ideas of the other world but in this very world that we find ourselves in. In short, this book shows that making a simple yet utterly basic shift in our lives will awaken the silence in our beings and bring joy into our every moment.
notes
Previously published in two volumes The Messiah, Vol 1 and The Messiah, Vol 2.
Later published as abridged version of Speak to Us of Love.
These are Osho's first talks on returning to Pune after his World Tour.
time period of Osho's original talks/writings
Jan 8, 1987 to Feb 10, 1987 : timeline
number of discourses/chapters
47


editions

Reflections on Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet

Year of publication : 2009
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 978-81-7261-220-7 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 757
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H
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