Kahlil Gibran

Speak to Us of Love

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Speak

to

Us

of

Love

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ISBN-13:978-0-918963-98-7

This title is a selection of chapters from a series titled Reflections on Kahlil

Gibran’s The Prophet. This series is also available as a print edition ISBN-13:

978-81-7261-220-7

This book is a series of original talks by Osho, given to a live audience. All of

Osho’s talks have been published in full as books, and are also available as

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“On Children”, “On Love”, “On Marriage”, “On Giving”, “On Freedom”,

“On Friendship”, “On Work”, “On Pleasure” from THE PROPHET by Kahlil

Gibran, copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran and renewed 1951 by Administrators

C.T.A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G. Gibran. Used by permission of Alfred

A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Preface

Kahlil Gibran is pure music, a mystery, such that only poetry

can sometimes grasp, but only sometimes.

Centuries have passed; there have been great men, but Kahlil

Gibran is a category in himself. I cannot conceive that even in

the future there is a possibility of another man of such deep

insight into the human heart, into the unknown that surrounds

us.

He has done something impossible. He has been able to bring

at...