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"The riches of the spirit beautify the face of man and give birth to sympathy and respect. The spirit, in every being is made manifest in the eyes...- To absorb the depth of Gibran is to discover your own soul's longing for light and life, for beauty and joy. It is to hear the cries of your on heart's ecstasy as a friend. companion, and lover. With his writings. Gibran seems to gently take us by the hand, and listen with us. for our own whisper of echoing spirit. Poet. artist, and mystic. Kabul Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece. The Prophet. a book of poetic essays that he began while still a youth in Lebanon, is one of the most cherished books of our time and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages since its publication in 1923. But all of Gibran's works—essays, stories, parables, and prose poems—arc imbued with equally powerful simplicity and wisdom, whether they are addressing maniage or children, friendship or grief, work or pleasure. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership. While most people know Gibran only as the author of "The Prophet." he wrote seventeen books, nine in Arabic and eight in English. This is perhaps the most comprehensive book of Kahlil Gibran's writings, comprising all his major works.