The Prophet ~ Khalil Gibran

"For self is a sea boundless and measureless." Seventeenth chapter of the book on self-knowledge. Thank you for listening! *Voice: Nurella *Picture link (Background Wallpaper by kai Stachowiak): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=147143&picture=background-wallpaper *Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) #khalilgibran #selfknowledge

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." Sixteenth chapter of the book on pain. Thank you for listening! *Voice: Nurella *Picture link (Man Sitting On A Concrete Bench by Burst): https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-sitting-on-a-concrete-bench-373914/ *Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) #khalilgibran

"Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes." Fifteenth chapter of the book on reason and passion. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Hiker In Mountain Landscape by Alex Gruber): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=291144&picture=hiker-in-mountain-landscape #khalilgibran

"People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" Thirteenth chapter of the book on laws. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Judge Gavel by George Hodan): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=164353&picture=judge-gavel #khalilgibran #theprophet

"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound." Fourteenth chapter of the book on freedom. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Fishing by Mohamed Mahmoud Hassan): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=241378&picture=fishing #khalilgibran #freedom

"Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world." Twelfth chapter of the book on crime and punishment. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Law and Justice Concept by Okan Çalışkan): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=160963&picture=law-and-justice-concept #khalilgibran

"It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger." Eleventh chapter of the book on buying and selling. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Gamla Stan Stockholm Old Town by Kennet Kjell Johansson Hultman): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=302850&picture=gamla-stan-stockholm-old-town

Fourth chapter of the book talking about Deucalion, Pyrrha and the flood. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Picture link (Deukalion en Pyrrha by Pieter Paul Rubens, 1636): https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deukalion_en_Pyrrha#/media/Bestand:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Deucalion_and_Pyrrha,_1636.jpg *Names included in the chapter: Deucalion, Pyrrha, Prometheus, Mercury. #mythology #stories

"And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain." Tenth chapter of the book on clothes. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Vintage Illustration by Dawn Hudson): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=193672&picture=vintage-illustration #khalilgibran #stories

"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast." Ninth chapter of the book on houses. Thank you for listening! * Voice: Nurella * Music from https://filmmusic.io "River Flute" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * Picture link (Country Cottage by Dawn Hudson): https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=200841&picture=country-cottage #khalilgibran #stories