The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The stars appeared as broken remnants of lightning, but now silence prevailed...
Your clothes conceal much of your… And though you seek in garments th… Would that you could meet the sun… For the breath of life is in the s… Some of you say,"It is the north…
Would that you could live on the f… But since you must kill to eat, an… And let your board stand an altar… When you kill a beast say to him i… “By the same power that slays you,…
You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking t… Like children playing by the ocean… But while you build your sand—towe… And when you destroy them the ocea…
The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, “Dr...
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, “Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country my congratulations upon t...
Five years of Selma’s marriage passed without bringing children to strengthen the ties of spiritual relation between her and her husband and bind their repugnant souls together. A bar...
Your pain is the breaking of the s… Even as the stone of the fruit mus… And could you keep your heart in w… And you would accept the seasons o… And you would watch with serenity…
In the midst of the gardens and hills which connect the city of Beirut with Lebanon there is a small temple, very ancient, dug out of white rock, surrounded by olive, almond, and willow...
One day there passed by a company… And as he came near and saw that t… him not, he stopped. Then there arose in the midst of t… looked upon them and said, ‘Brethr…
It is when your spirit goes wander… That you, alone and unguarded, com… And for that wrong committed must… Like the ocean is your god—self; It remains for ever undefiled.
You would know the secret of death… But how shall you find it unless y… The owl whose night—bound eyes are… If you would indeed behold the spi… For life and death are one, even a…
No man can reveal to you aught but… The teacher who walks in the shado… If he is indeed wise he does not b… The astronomer may speak to you of… The musician may sing to you of th…
I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers, and Selma Karamy was the first woman who awaken...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; For the sake of that which