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camilagaribi's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
My new favorite book
osamatheauthor's review
5.0
4.5/5
Poetry is a profound method of writing and expressing, unquestionably. With this statement, we need to accept it, too, that not everyone can play around with words and call it poetry when only a few have achieved the benchmark of writing to be known as poetic.
Khalil Gibran, for me, is one of them who splendidly presented the actual meaning of poetry and its intensity one can feel. His writing style is elegant and splendid to the level of getting goosebumps. Exceptional poetry is done by him as I can see myself in the mirror he made through his written words. He made me speechless, and I am glad he did so because I needed to find solitude for myself, and he helped me with it vividly.
Some of the cherishing points I could extract from the book:
1. Sorrow is the pathway that helps you reach peace.
2. Love has to be fulfilled.
3. The house you are supposed to fascinate resides within.
4. The real fight is between me vs. myself.
5. Sometimes, your reasoning can create harm when you are supposed to accept the happening.
6. You have to allow pain to break your heart: a reason for you to bloom.
7. Cherish every emotional phase you find yourself part of.
8. Earn your silence as you ought to seek with yourself and selflessness primarily.
9. A cast of judgment cannot be attempted by knowing only a side.
10. The major hurdle between you and yourself is I.
11. Your heart will signify you about the good deeds you perform.
12. Ambiguity is the way to clear things up.
Poetry is a profound method of writing and expressing, unquestionably. With this statement, we need to accept it, too, that not everyone can play around with words and call it poetry when only a few have achieved the benchmark of writing to be known as poetic.
Khalil Gibran, for me, is one of them who splendidly presented the actual meaning of poetry and its intensity one can feel. His writing style is elegant and splendid to the level of getting goosebumps. Exceptional poetry is done by him as I can see myself in the mirror he made through his written words. He made me speechless, and I am glad he did so because I needed to find solitude for myself, and he helped me with it vividly.
Some of the cherishing points I could extract from the book:
1. Sorrow is the pathway that helps you reach peace.
2. Love has to be fulfilled.
3. The house you are supposed to fascinate resides within.
4. The real fight is between me vs. myself.
5. Sometimes, your reasoning can create harm when you are supposed to accept the happening.
6. You have to allow pain to break your heart: a reason for you to bloom.
7. Cherish every emotional phase you find yourself part of.
8. Earn your silence as you ought to seek with yourself and selflessness primarily.
9. A cast of judgment cannot be attempted by knowing only a side.
10. The major hurdle between you and yourself is I.
11. Your heart will signify you about the good deeds you perform.
12. Ambiguity is the way to clear things up.
savaging's review
2.0
I will file this in my books-I-will-surely-use-for-therapeutic-value-but-don't-actually-believe category. Which is not a small stack. All these hopeful, open-minded prophets and new age religions promising order to the cosmos. Urging bravery and creativity. Verily the heart within me burns.
And verily she burns out when I realize that this cosmology requires that I assume all suffering is accounted for in some best-of-all-possible-worlds balance sheet -- that each victim asked for it in the cosmological long-view, that the suffering anyway is an illusion, settle down, dear.
Gibran writes with the operatic, universalizing tone of William Blake and Nietzsche's Zarathustra, but without the hard-bit edge of these other two. All the same, they're all fantasizing a booming oz-wizard before the awestruck audience. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain, who might be blind as the rest of us.
And verily she burns out when I realize that this cosmology requires that I assume all suffering is accounted for in some best-of-all-possible-worlds balance sheet -- that each victim asked for it in the cosmological long-view, that the suffering anyway is an illusion, settle down, dear.
Gibran writes with the operatic, universalizing tone of William Blake and Nietzsche's Zarathustra, but without the hard-bit edge of these other two. All the same, they're all fantasizing a booming oz-wizard before the awestruck audience. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain, who might be blind as the rest of us.
loslibrosdecarangi's review against another edition
3.0
El primer libro que leí del autor fue El loco/El vagabundo. Esta vez, aunque me ha costado más conectar con lo que contaba, me ha parecido mucho más completo y bonito. Cómo habla del sentido de la vida, cómo critica el egoísmo humano y la tendencia que tenemos las personas de creernos dios y juzgar a los demás es algo digno de leer.
Lo he escuchado en audiolibro y creo que lo habría disfrutado más leyéndolo en físico.
Aun así le doy 3.5 estrellas.
Lo he escuchado en audiolibro y creo que lo habría disfrutado más leyéndolo en físico.
Aun así le doy 3.5 estrellas.
ennakkoon's review against another edition
Beautiful writing and passages. Didn’t know what to expect going in at all, but I wasn’t dissapointed
sarahlove909's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0