About this item
For the past eighty years, the beautiful words of the Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran have graced everything from greeting cards and wedding invitations to inspirational wall hangings and corporate motivational literature. By one account, Gibran is the third bestselling poet of all time, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.In this beautiful gift book, we discover the essential wisdom about what it means to be alive. For Gibran life is the energy that saturates all we see and feel--as well as what we can only imagine. Here are over 100 fables, aphorisms, parables, stories, and poems from the author of The Prophet.Here on display is that visionary voice of comfort, love, and tolerance.Listing to Nature's LifeTaking time to listen to the natural world reveals a new dimension of beinghuman.
About the Author
Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz is an internationally known scholar in the fields connecting religious studies and psychology as well as a poet and musician. He is the author of: *Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus (1990) ; *Desert Wisdom: The Middle Eastern Tradition from the Goddess Through the Sufis (1995) ; *The Hidden Gospel: Decoding the Spirituality of the Aramaic Jesus (1999) ; *The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews and Muslims (2003) ; *The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish (2005) *Blessings of the Cosmos: Wisdom of the Heart from the Aramaic Words of Jesus (2006) *The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians and Muslims (2006, authored under the name of Saadi Shakur Chishti, with Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Sr. Joan Chittister) *Desert Wisdom: A Nomad's Guide to Life's Big Questions from the Heart of the Native Middle East (2011) . Extensively revised from the 1995 edition with many new translations.*'I Am': The Secret Teachings of the Aramaic Jesus (2012) *A Murder at Armageddon (2015, historical mystery novel authored under the name of A.K.A. Chisti) *Illuminating the Shadow: The Love, Life and Laughter of a 20th century Sufi - Moineddin Jablonski. Editor, autobiographical collection. (2016) .His audio sets from Sounds True include: The Hidden Gospel, Original Prayer (on the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus) , The Healing Breath (on the Beatitudes in Matthew and Jesus' healing ministry) and 'I Am' (on Jesus's last teachings to his disciples in the Gospels of John and Thomas) .He is the past chair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion and active in various international colloquia and conferences dedicated to peace and spirituality. He directs the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning (www.eial.org) in Edinburgh, Scotland. and co-founded the Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, now in its sixth year (www.mesp.org.uk) . In 2005 he was awarded the Kessler-Keener Foundation Peacemaker of the Year award for his work in Middle Eastern peacemaking. Information about his work may be found at the website of the Abwoon Resource Center (www.abwoon.com)
