One night a feat was held in the p… prostrated himself before the prin… upon him; and they saw that one of… the empty socket bled. And the pri… befallen you?’ And the man replied…
Would that you could live on the f… But since you must kill to eat, an… And let your board stand an altar… When you kill a beast say to him i… “By the same power that slays you,…
You would know the secret of death… But how shall you find it unless y… The owl whose night—bound eyes are… If you would indeed behold the spi… For life and death are one, even a…
Pleasure is a freedom—song, But i… It is the blossoming of your desir… But it is not their fruit. It is a depth calling unto a heigh… But it is not space encompassed.
There in the middle of the field, by the side of a crystalline stream, I saw a bird—cage whose rods and hinges were fashioned by an expert’s hands. In one corner lay a dead bird, and in...
One day there passed by a company… And as he came near and saw that t… him not, he stopped. Then there arose in the midst of t… looked upon them and said, ‘Brethr…
He is a link between this and the… He is A pure spring from which all thirs… He is a tree watered by the River… Fruit which the hungry heart crave…
Build of your imaginings a bower i… For even as you have home—comings… Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in… Would that I could gather your ho…
Love one another, but make not a b… Let it rather be a moving sea betw… Fill each other’s cup, but drink n… Give one another of your bread, bu… Sing and dance together and be joy…
I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers, and Selma Karamy was the first woman who awaken...
One day Farris Effandi invited me to dinner at his home. I accepted, my spirit hungry for the divine bread which Heaven placed in the hands of Selma, the spiritual bread which makes our...
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of...
Marriage in these days is a mockery whose management is in the hands of young men and parents. In most countries the young men win while the parents lose. The woman is looked upon as a ...
No man can reveal to you aught but… The teacher who walks in the shado… If he is indeed wise he does not b… The astronomer may speak to you of… The musician may sing to you of th…
I was, And I am. So shall I be to the end of time, For I am without end. I have cleft the vast spaces of th…