Mystic Poets · 1883–1931
Kahlil Gibran
Between Lebanon and America · the mysticism of love · The Prophet
The poet who turned parting, labor, and death into a hymn to love. The most read mystic of the modern age.
The essence of the teaching: All that is divided is in truth one, and love is the power that reveals that oneness. Death is not the opposite of life: it is the taking off of a mask, a return into freedom.
Transmission
Gibran grew up between two worlds – mountainous Lebanon and seething New York – and so he heard how different traditions sing one song. In "The Prophet" he speaks of death without fear: what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and dissolve into the sun? The river and the sea are not two; they are one water in different garments. He called you not to turn away from pain and joy, but to drink them to the dregs, for the deeper sorrow carves into you, the more joy you can hold. For him love is not a feeling but the very fabric of being, in which there are no separate threads.
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