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Gibran's Jesus: The Son of Man is a portrayal of Christ through the eyes of His contemporaries - men and women who knew him as an enemy, friend, teacher, and Son.

The characters, including Mary Magdalen, Simon Peter, Pontius Pilate, and Barabbas are brought to life against the social, political, and religious realities of Palestine and Rome at that period.

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn't long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. When he hit rock bottom-addicted to heroin and cocaine, overtaken by paranoia and psychosis, written off by his friends and family - he grabbed a shovel and kept digging. So how does someone with nothing, who feels like they deserve nothing, and who just wants to end it all turn their life around?

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran], "Treasure Island" [Robert Louis Stevenson], "White fang" [Jack London], "The Time machine" [H. G. Wells], "The Battle of Life" [Charles Dickens], "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes" [Arthur Conan Doyle], "The Three Musketeers" [Alexandre Dumas], "The adventures of Pinocchio" [Carlo Collodi], "Robinson Crusoe" [Daniel Defoe], "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" [Mark Twain].

Historias que nos invitan a reflexionar y nos estimulan con ideas nuevas e inspiradoras. Despojados de las máscaras que ocultan nuestros sentimientos y emociones, nos enfrentamos por primera vez a las grandezas y miserias de nuestra alma. Surge entonces en cada uno de nosotros un loco dispuesto a experimentar la libertad de vivir sin pretextos ni ocultaciones, y, sobre todo, sin la necesidad de que nos comprendan, porque cuando nos comprenden, encasillan y esclavizan algo de nosotros.

La presente obra de parábolas y poemas es considerada por muchos como un trabajo precursor --junto con El Loco-- de la obra que tres años después sería el gran éxito de Gibrán y lo haría mundialmente famosos: El Profeta. En su conjunto, El Precursor es una clara muestra del fino lirismo y de la profundidad filosófica de Gibrán, siempre ajeno a los prolongados argumentos y las tramas complejas.Con su gran economía y una oportunidad impecable, transmite al lector sus conclusiones siempre optimistas y confortantes, reflejo de su luminoso espíritu.

La Voz del Maestro es una colección de ensayos filosóficos y reflexiones espirituales del aclamado poeta y escritor Gibran Jalil Gibran. A través de sus escritos, Gibran aborda una amplia gama de temas, incluidos el amor, la belleza, la libertad y la espiritualidad. Inspirado por sus propias experiencias y observaciones de la vida, Gibran comparte su sabiduría y visión del mundo, ofreciendo perspectivas profundas y provocativas sobre la existencia humana.

This book is a collection of Gibran's words on how to live. Here are his thoughts on what it means to live in community and solitude and what gives life meaning, along with his often prescient views on government, organized religion, wealth, and commerce. Gibran's sensibility feels contemporary. He did not recognize any ultimate authority outside of the human soul: "It were wiser to speak less of God, whom we cannot understand and more of each other, whom we may understand."

Kahlil Gibrans' Spiritual World is a collection of four of the most important books he wrote in the English language and on which much of his reputation rests. The Madman, The Forerunner, The Prophet, and Sand and Foam are all included here in their entirety. Beautifully narrated by '60s legend Arthur Brown, they are a must for inspiration seekers.

Educated in Lebanon, United States, and France, Gibran was influenced by the European modernists of the late 19th century, but even more by Francis Marrash, who introduced poetic prose and prose poetry in the Arab world. Gibran's style of writing and ideas he wrote about are believed to have been greatly influenced by Marrash, particularly the concept of universal love.

Originally published in 1923 by Knopf, The Prophet is a teaching fable that has been cherished by millions for nearly 100 years. It is a book of wisdom that provides guidance on how to live a life imbued with meaning and purpose. Gibson explores all of life’s important issues - including love, marriage, the human condition, friendship, prayer, beauty, death, and much more. What makes this edition of The Prophet especially exciting is the inclusion of newly discovered Gibran material.

First published in the 1920s, The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today. A hugely influential guide to living, Gibran's Prophet speaks of many things central to daily life: love, marriage, death, beauty, passion, eating, work and play. The spiritual message he imparts, of finding divinity through love, blends Eastern mysticism, religious faith and philosophy with simple, comprehensible advice.

Kahlil Gibrans klassiker "Profeten" har lige siden udgivelsen i 1923 berørt mennesker verden over og tillige vaeret en af det 20. århundredes mest citerede bøger. "Profeten" er et lyrisk vaerk, som på samme tid udtrykker et klarsyn og en dyb spiritualitet. Bogen fortaeller om menneskelivets store sandheder, erfaringer og følelser: kaerlighed, død, frihed, religion, fornuft og lidenskab, men også om mere jordbundne emner som love, forbrydelser og straf.

Gibran considered The Prophet his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without The Prophet since I first conceived it in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been a part of me....I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that every word of it was the very best I had to offer."

This Audiobook contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names. "Think and Grow Rich" [Napoleon Hill], "The prophet" [Khalil Gibran], "Eight Pillars of Prosperity" [James Allen], "As a Man Thinketh" [James Allen], "An Iron Will" [Orison Swett Marden], "The Art of Money Getting" [P.T. Barnum], "The Game of Life and How to Play it" [Florence Scovel Shinn], "The Way to Wealth" [Benjamin Franklin ], "Acres of Diamonds" [Russell Conwell], "The Science of Getting Rich" [Wallace D. Wattles].

In early 2011, the world’s attention was riveted on Cairo, where after three decades of supremacy, Hosni Mubarak was driven from power. It was a revolution as swift as it was explosive. For 18 days, anger, defiance, and resurgent national pride reigned in the streets - protestors of all ages struck back against police and state security, united toward the common goal of liberation. But the revolution was more than a spontaneous uprising. It was the end result of years of mounting tension, brought on by a state that shamelessly abused its authority, rigging elections, silencing opposition, and violently attacking its citizens.

Through exquisite poetry and bittersweet memories, Kahlil Gibran transports us back to turn-of-the-20th-century Beirut. Aged 18, he falls deeply in love with Selma, the only daughter of family friend and hugely respected local businessman Farris Karamy. However, Selma soon becomes betrothed to Mansour Bey Galib, the nephew of the powerful Bishop Bulos Galib, who has one eye on the Karamy family fortune. Gibran and Selma must fight to reconcile their love for one another while navigating the rules, traditions, and expectations that their society lays before them.

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.

Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Secrets is a collection of Gibran's words on life's big questions and the mysteries of the spiritual path. It is an exploration of the riddles and conundrums that are part of the fabric of existence, and it is an attempt to penetrate and explain the mysteries of life.

World-famous 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer. It was originally published in 1923. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.

After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.