Khalil Gibran: Selected Passages from The Prophet
On love, work, children, freedom, death; 'Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself'
On love, work, children, freedom, death; 'Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself'
Published 1923 (public domain as of 2019). The book every wedding reads from. Gibran's argument that everything precious must be held loosely.
Key themes: Love, work, children, freedom, death, spiritual wisdom