His name is surely famous enough. He was a writer, poet, and definitely one of the best thinkers of our time. And every thinker has a philosophy of his own.
It is really strange but very interesting that people who immigrate or run away from their birthplace have a wider ability to view the world and its curves and circles in another way.
“Your children are not your children./ They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself./ They come through you but not from you./ And though they are with you yet they belong not to you./ You may give them your love, but not your thoughts./ For they have their own thoughts/ You may house their bodies but not their souls./ For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams./ You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you./ For life goes not backwards nor tarries with yesterday./ You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” The passage on Children, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
He is a fascinating man, and as I know, I am not of his abilities, but I understand him well.
Here is a “Poem”? which we might read it several times to see our seven (seals?!) selves of our own.
The Seven Selves ~ Gibran, Khalil, 1883-1931
By http://SearchingTheMeaningOfLife With a great Thank 🙏💖
Gibran, Khalil, 1883-1931
The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus converted in a whisper:
The First Self:
Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with nought to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow by night, I can bear my fate no longer, and now I rebel.
The Second Self:
Yours is a better lot than mine, brother, for it is given to me to be this madman’s joyous self. I laugh his laughter and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet, I dance his brighter thoughts. It is I that would rebel against my weary existence.
The Third Self:
And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand of wild passion and fantastic desires? It is I, the love-sick self, who would rebel against this madman.
The Fourth Self:
I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for nought was given me but odious hatred and destructive loathing. It is I, the tempest-like self, the one born in the black caves of Hell, who would protest against serving this madman.
The Fifth Self:
Nay, it is I, the thinking self, the fanciful self, the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is I, not you, who would revolt.
The Sixth Self:
And I, the working self, the pitiful labourer, who, with patient hands and longing eyes, fashion the days into images and give the formless elements new and eternal forms, is I, the solitary one, who would rebel against this restless madman.
The Seventh Self:
How strange that you all would rebel against this man because each and every one of you has a preordained fate to fulfil. Ah! Could I but be like one of you, a self with a determined lot! But I have none, I am the do-nothing self, the one who sits in the dumb, empty nowhere and nowhen, while you are busy re-creating life. Is it you or I, neighbours, who should revolt?
When the seventh self spoke like that, the other six looked at him
with pity and said nothing else; and as the night grew thicker
one after another, they fell asleep, wrapped in a new and happy submission.
But the seventh self remained to look and observe
nothing, which is behind all things.
«The Madman»
ΥG. I know it’s not a poem, but K. Gibran is a Poet…
source : http: //monopoihmata.blogspot.com /
lampmagician 
I love Gibrain and I thank you for sharing this wonderful post!
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so do I, and I thank you for your great support 🙏💖💕🙏
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You’re so kind so say so. 🙂
Have a lovely evening 🙏 😘 🙏
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… to say…. sorry 😉
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😂😘😘
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Thank you for this. I knew the first readings and loved reading them again. He was so, so popular in the late 1960s that I happily heard his wisdom at every wedding and celebration for a new child. I had never read The Seven Selves and love it. Thank you for introducing me to this. The seventh feels like Witness Consciousness or Soul. (S)he never gets a rest.
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Thank you dearest Elaine for your beautiful comment, it is rounding off my work 🙏❤
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What great joy it is Aladin to read Kahil’s name here on your blog! Like Elaine I knew of the first readings of this fabulous poet … for that’s how I’ve always seen him but WOW I’ve never read “The Seven Selves” before … which deserve many readings as one cannot digest such richness in one sitting alone! What a treat 😍 ♥️ Thank you so much for sharing. Blessings always, Deborah. ❤ 🙏
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you say that, my dearest Deborah, It hits me extremely the same when I read this. he is surely a genius to deepen one’s soul. I read it several times till I could feel my seven inner too. it’s overwhelming. Thank you for your addition to my contribution🙏❣ love and gratitude ❤🥰😘
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Much appreciated dear Phil 🙏 👍🤗
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You could be brothers, Aladin. You look so much alike!
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Awa, another genius as brother? You flatters me 😂😇 I should look at the mirror again and again. Thank you my dearest Pam ❤🙏 😘
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🥰🙌🙏
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wonderful post
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Much appreciated dear friend 🙏
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“I slept and dreamt.. “ is actually a quote by Rabindranath Tagore not by Kahlil Gibran
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You are absolutely right! It is an old post, and it seems I was more naive those days than today! Thank you so much for noticing me.🙏🤙😊
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