The Prophet (Condensed Classics): The Unparalleled Classic on Life's Meaning-Now in a Special Condensation
By Khalil Gibran and Mitch Horowitz
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The Prophet has touched more lives than any other modern work of inspirational literature. Now, Khalil Gibran’s timeless message for meaningful living is available to you in a single sitting in this powerful abridgment by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz.
Gibran explores how to discover new doorways and ideas every day, and how your existence is far greater than you realize. His ideas bring comfort, insight, and new impetuous to dive fully into your role as a sacred being
Discover what millions have found in this perspective-shifting work, now open to you in a brilliant condensation.
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The Prophet (Condensed Classics) - Khalil Gibran
INTRODUCTION
A Guide to Powerful Living
By Mitch Horowitz
Poet Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet is probably the most widespread and influential work of modern inspirational literature. Its impact is difficult to overstate, touching the lives of readers from politicians and radicals to movie stars and pop singers. The Prophet impacted the revolution in alternative spirituality that was travelling the globe when the book first appeared in 1923. It impacted the Beat culture of the 1950s, with its calls for a boundary-free search for truth. Its spirit of love and rebelliousness influenced the Woodstock generation. And today it remains a standard work for people who consider themselves spiritual but not religious—yet it also finds a place on the bookshelves of traditional seekers since none of its principles run counter to mainline religion.
Gibran’s brilliance in writing The Prophet—in which an unnamed figure delivers a series of aphorisms to a group of villagers—is that he distilled the highest and most universal principles of all faiths, East and West, ancient and modern. That his book resonates so deeply with readers of diffuse backgrounds testifies to the truth, sensed instinctively by so many people and enunciated within the book’s pages, that, issues of doctrine and dogma aside, there really does exist a common core of ethics and values at the heart of the world’s enduring faiths. This core is distilled in The Prophet.
In terms of meaning and influence, I group The Prophet with works like the Tao Te Ching and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. All of these expressions have attained posterity because they return us to what was being sought from religions before religions themselves were formed.
In essence, The Prophet is a guide to ethical living. The purpose of my condensation is not to replace the original, which no book can do, but rather to distill the poet’s most poignant and applicable ideals. That you can experience the book in a single sitting makes me hope you will become a lifelong reader of it, and also venture into the original text.
Gibran’s verse has so fully permeated our culture that you may be surprised to encounter passages that remind you of some of our best-known expressions. Take for example Gibran’s maxim: And what is fear of need but need itself?
Ten years after he wrote those words, Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 announced in his first inaugural speech: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Writer Joseph Wakim detected a similar parallel in the widely repeated lines from John F. Kennedy’s