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- Herausgeber: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
The Forerunner is a collection of philosophical parables and poetic reflections by Kahlil Gibran, offering deep insights into life, love, and the human spirit. In this work, Gibran continues to explore the themes of spiritual awakening, self-discovery, and the journey of the soul through stories that are both simple and profound. Each parable in The Forerunner reflects Gibran's unique ability to distill complex emotions and universal truths into beautifully crafted language. Through his tales, Gibran addresses timeless questions about existence, morality, and the soul's yearning for higher understanding, all while encouraging readers to seek their own inner wisdom. With its poetic depth and spiritual resonance, The Forerunner is a contemplative and inspiring work that invites readers to reflect on their own paths in life, making it an enduring piece of Gibran's literary and philosophical legacy.
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Kahlil Gibran
The Forerunner
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The Forerunner is a collection of philosophical parables and poetic reflections by Kahlil Gibran, offering deep insights into life, love, and the human spirit. In this work, Gibran continues to explore the themes of spiritual awakening, self-discovery, and the journey of the soul through stories that are both simple and profound.
Each parable in The Forerunner reflects Gibran’s unique ability to distill complex emotions and universal truths into beautifully crafted language. Through his tales, Gibran addresses timeless questions about existence, morality, and the soul’s yearning for higher understanding, all while encouraging readers to seek their own inner wisdom.
With its poetic depth and spiritual resonance, The Forerunner is a contemplative and inspiring work that invites readers to reflect on their own paths in life, making it an enduring piece of Gibran’s literary and philosophical legacy.
The Forerunner
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.
God’s Fool
Once there came from the desert to the great city of Sharia a man who was a dreamer, and he had naught but his garment and staff.
And as he walked through the streets he gazed with awe and wonder at the temples and towers and palaces, for the city of Sharia was of surpassing beauty. And he spoke often to the passers-by, questioning them about their city—but they understood not his language, nor he their language.
At the noon hour he stopped before a vast inn. It was built of yellow marble, and people were going in and coming out unhindered.
“This must be a shrine,’ he said to himself, and he too went in. But what was his surprise to find himself in a hall of great splendour and a large company of men and women seated about many tables. They were eating and drinking and listening to the musicians.
‘Nay,’ said the dreamer. ‘This is no worshipping. It must be a feast given by the prince to the people, in celebration of a great event.’
At that moment a man, whom he took to be the slave of the prince, approached him, and bade him be seated. And he was served with meat and wine and most excellent sweets.
