Reviews for Overnight in the guest house of the mystic

The average rating for Overnight in the guest house of the mystic based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-10 00:00:00 Brian Christenson I knew Kahlil Gibran the lebanesse writer/poet whom his real name was Gibran Kahlil Gibran and his works were compared to Dante's, Blake's and Rodin's and that his works called the prophet is one of the most highly regarded poems of modern time. Long time ago, My former boyfriend used to quote his poems to impress me. But at that time I didn't want to buy any of his books to read more about him. I'm not a poetic person, I was struggling to intrepet Chairil Anwar back when I was in school and eventhough rarely I wrote love poems for my former boyfriends and if at all it were like unpoetic poems. Until one day, I remember it was monday afternoon, I had tea with my favorite couple (now they split up) at Border in singapore a year ago, they gave me this book. I was so agog because of its beautiful purple colour cover, the crispiness of the papers and the beauty of the pictures inside te book. It's so exquisite. And felt like returning the book to them and asked them to buy me Zara's or mango's top instead. But it never happened when I opened the first page, I loved it. Now I realized why my former boyfriend was so hooked on this Poet, simply because he's fantastic. And this book it's all about Kahlil Gibran writings, starting from the famous "the Prophet", The garden of the prophet, the madman,the wanderer, etc. And I sounded like my former boyfriend but this is one of his many poems that I really really love: Marriage Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answeared saying: You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-22 00:00:00 Lawrence Leggett كتاب بسيط ومبسط، كدليل ارشادي نحو اعظم المصطلحات اهميةً في دنيانا هذه، وفيه بالتأكيد ومضات للوقوف عندها والتأمل.