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The Prophet
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Seminal poems for moments of mindfulness.
First published in 1923 and never out of print, The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages and read by millions of people around the world. On the face of it, a simple book of 26 poem fables sharing one man’s wisdom. But The Prophet is so much more than that.
It has inspired people from John F Kennedy to The Beatles and became the '60s Bible of counterculture – all because of the timeless truths it shared. Each poem takes a different theme – pleasure, beauty, freedom, joy and sorrow – as the fictional Al Mustapha shares his thoughts and experiences as he prepares to travel back to his island home. Even on first listen, his words will seem achingly familiar, having soaked into our collective subconscious:
- Like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link
- Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed
- Let there be spaces in your togetherness
- You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thought
- It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked
This collection makes the perfect bedtime listen or walking companion as you take time out from the world to consider your own truths and experiences, guided by the wise words and gentle hand of Kahlil Gibran.
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- T Woodward
- 2023-07-29
The narration is superb!!!!
I read a review about listening to it once is not enough. Absolutely right!!!! 3 times today!!!
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- Annette
- 2023-11-13
Thank you
I read this years ago and so happy to see it available here. I will listen again and again. The voice of the narrator is like music. Beautiful
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- elc
- 2023-10-29
100 years
Beautifully written. Beautifully narrated. Now, a century old, but feels ageless. Highly recommend this masterpiece.
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- Qristine
- 2022-10-11
A work of great beauty
Truly it is such a delicious feast for the spirit and the body to listen…the narrator is incredible and I was absolutely captivated and loved every moment. Will listen again and again
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- Simona Bonea
- 2022-03-08
Love it!
wise advices for everyone and for any time... to remember and not to forget!
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- Bryan
- 2022-01-30
The Prophet
I read this in my teens and revisited it 5 decades later via an audiobook. It is still a thought provoking work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-01-11
Once is not enough
I’m going to listen to it again and again, hopefully I’ll grasp some of the ideas I missed in the first listen. I most certainly missed a few. Great book, great content and a nice performance.
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- Dee Tree
- 2021-09-12
Riz Ahmed's Narraration Is So Moving!
I have read The Prophet in times past. Nevertheless, Riz Ahmed's narration invokes more intense images--as if I were there standing the sea shore myself. So moving. Thank you!
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- amisho lewis
- 2021-09-12
Wisdom that transcends time.
There is a reason this book has never been out of print. There is a reason this book has been a supplement for many religious text. There is a reason this book has been quoted by many throughout the ages. That reason is that the wisdom in these pages transcend time and culture.
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- Ronald Israel
- 2021-09-04
Great listen !
Such wisdom and true spiritual content !
The Prophet is a must have in your library.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-12-06
This story is truly beautiful
Read this. It’s joy to the heart and lifts the spirit. I would suggest it to anyone.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-12-05
Pure Love!!!
Absolutely Beautiful! Just in time I needed this book. Will listen to it again. So much to learn and I felt every word, thank you !!!!!!
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- Felix
- 2023-12-03
The Prophet
Brief and poetic. A little book to return to whenever you seek quick wisdom about one thing or another.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-11-23
One forever
I truly will listen to his book from now on end. It’s so beautifully narrated and the content so valuable. A true life companion.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-11-10
Beautiful
This book is absolutely beautiful and the narrator made it even more pleasant and beautiful.
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- Luis Rivera
- 2023-10-30
One of the best books ever written, narrated terribly
This work has a profound depth of wisdom and beauty, but the narrator performs every word how one might perform Nietzsche. It doesn’t work.
His voice reeks of immaturity and conceit —dramatizes even the mundane.
Listen to the LibriVox version; it’s free and read by an older man whose cadence and timbre betray the requisite level of wisdom and understanding for a text of this caliber.
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- bruh
- 2023-10-24
WOW!
Amazing! Brilliant! This book is so wise, enlightening, comforting, informative, complex, thorough, simple, etc. etc. All good things in this book. The narrator was great too. I would rate the book as "amazing", like 100 out of 100, and the narrator like 95 out of 100, which is still 5 stars from me, but not all 5 stars are alike. If you have given something a 5-star rating, you may want to take it back after reading this book. Nothing compares.
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