The Prophet - Chapter 4 - Children

I was given my first copy of Khalil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ when I was about 16 years old by my drama teacher at the time.  I have since read it many times, bought other copies and given them to friends and acquaintances over the years.  It is a book to read and reflect upon its messages. I have found it so profound in different times of my life and also has given me much comfort.

It took Khalil Gibran 11 years to write this book and it is the first part of a trilogy – The Prophet, The Garden of the Prophet and The Death of the Prophet and are among about 25 books that he wrote.  ‘The Prophet’ is his most famous book and has sold millions of copies world wide. 

Khalil Gibran was born in Lebanon in 1883 in a village called Bisharri and moved to America with his family in 1895 when he was 12 years old.  As a Poet, Artist and Writer, Khalil Gibran studied in Paris and then moved back to America. 

He passed away at the age of 48 in 1931 and his body was shipped back and cremated in Lebanon.

I hope you enjoy listening to ‘The Prophet’ and its messages as much as I enjoyed reading and reflecting on them.

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Episode Transcript

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The Prophet by Khalil Gebrn Chapter four, Children and a
woman who held a babe against her. Bosom said, speak
to us of children, and he said, your children are
not your children. They are the sons and daughters of

(01:27):
life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not
from you. And though they are with you, yet they
belong not to you. You may give them your love,
but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.

(01:50):
You may house their bodies, but not their souls, for
their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you
cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive
to be like them, but seek not to make them

(02:11):
like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows,
are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the
path of the infinite, and he bends you with his might,

(02:34):
that his arrows may go swift and far. Let your
bending in the archer's hand be full gladness. For even
as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves
also the bow that is stable.

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