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The Prophet Study Guide

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by Khalil Gibran
About 37 pages (11,123 words)
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"On Self-Knowledge" Summary

A man asks about self-knowledge, and Almustafa declares that people's hearts know in silence the secrets of day and night and that their ears thirst for the sound of their hearts' knowledge. People do well, wanting to put their thoughts into words and touch the naked body of their dreams. The wellspring of the soul must flow to the sea for the depths to be revealed. The depths of knowledge cannot be measured any more than the sea. One ought not to speak about finding the.....

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