Frases célebres de Gibran Jalil Gibran
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 205.
“Vuestra alegría es vuestra tristeza sin máscara.”
Fuente: Gibrán Jalil Giblrán. El Profeta. Editorial EDAF, 2010. Traducido por Mauro Fernández Alonso de Armiño. ISBN 978-84-4142-312-1, p. 51
“Si no se rompe, ¿cómo logrará abrirse tu corazón?”
Fuente: amorydesamor.org, "Excusar o justificar el poco o nulo amor recibido", 2010.
Frases sobre el corazón de Gibran Jalil Gibran
Fuente: [Navajo], José Luis. Todo es por Gracia. Editorial Thomas Nelson Inc, 2012 ISBN 978-16-0255-732-1.
“La fe es un oasis en el corazón, que nunca será alcanzado por la caravana del pensamiento.”
Fuente: [Blasco], Vicente R. La sombra del dios invisible. Editorial Cumio, 2017 ISBN 978-98-9519-140-6.
“En el rocío de las pequeñas cosas, el corazón encuentra su mañana y toma su frescura.”
Fuente: Bol Cecilio; OLLIRUM LEUGIM. Mis conversaciones con ellos. Editor Bubok 2010. ISBN 978-84-90096-34-5, p. 301.
Fuente: [Red], Samuel. Las mejores citas de provocación/Best Provocation Sayings: Contra todo y contra todos. Editorial Grasindo, 2008. ISBN 978-84-79277-80-2, p. 315.
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Las artes de las naciones", 1963 (póstuma).
Frases de amor de Gibran Jalil Gibran
“El amor es siempre tímido ante la belleza, al paso que la belleza anda siempre detrás del amor.”
Fuente: [Sarmiento], J. M. Mil y un frases célebres. Planet House Editorials, 2016.
Gibran Jalil Gibran Frases y Citas
“Aquel que te perdona un pecado que no has cometido, se perdona a sí mismo su propio crimen.”
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Dichos", 1963 (póstuma).
“Debe haber algo extrañamente sagrado en la sal: está en nuestras lágrimas y en el mar.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 178.
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Las nueve desdichas", 1963 (póstuma).
“Hay quienes dan con alegría y esa alegría es su premio.”
Fuente: Gibrán Jalil Giblrán. El Profeta. Editorial EDAF, 2010. Traducido por Mauro Fernández Alonso de Armiño. ISBN 978-84-4142-312-1, p. 67.
“No busques al amigo para matar las horas, búscale con horas para vivir.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 35.
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Dichos", 1963 (póstuma).
“Algunos buscan el placer en el dolor; y otros no pueden limpiarse sino con suciedad.”
Fuente: Gibran Khalil Gibran. Dichos Espirituales. Traducido por Natalie Montoto. Editorial CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN 9781517272456.
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, 1963 (póstuma).
“Aquel que no usa su moralidad sino como si fuera su mejor ropaje, estaría mejor desnudo.”
Fuente: Gibrán Jalil Giblrán. El Profeta. Editorial EDAF, 2010. Traducido por Mauro Fernández Alonso de Armiño. ISBN 978-84-4142-312-1.
“Descubrí el secreto del mar meditando sobre una gota de rocío.”
Diversos autores como Mercedes Alonso o Josefina Toro Garrido la atribuyen a Antonio Machado. Sin embargo Jaime Jaramillo la cita atribuida a Gibran Jalil Gibran.
Citas discutidas
Fuente: [Toro Garrido], Josefina; Guillermo [Mujica Sevilla]: Una Historia, Muchas Historias. Universidad de Carabobo, Dirección de Medios y Publicaciones, 2008. ISBN 978-98-0233-440-7.
Fuente: [Alonso], Mercedes. Los ángeles no tienen hélices. Los Libros Del Cristal, 2016. ISBN 978-84-1561-133-2.
Fuente: [Jaramillo], Jaime. Los Hijos de la Oscuridad. Edición ilustrada. Grupo Editorial Norma, 1999. ISBN 9789580453222, p. 70.
“El silencio del envidioso está lleno de ruidos.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 113.
“Madre: la palabra más bella pronunciada por el ser humano.”
Fuente: [Torre Díaz], Javier de la. Mujer, mujeres y bioética. Editorial Univ. Pontifica Comillas, 2010. ISBN 978-84-8468-277-6, p. 85.
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 256.
Fuente: [Nocerino Rojas], Ana Virginia. De las organizaciones, colaboradores y sus flatulencias inherentes y conexas. Punto Rojo Libros, 2015. ISBN 978-16-2934-926-8. p. 231.
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Dichos", 1963 (póstuma).
“Bueno es dar cuando nos piden; pero mejor es dar sin que nos pidan, como buenos entendedores.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 84.
“Conocí un segundo nacimiento, cuando mi alma y mi cuerpo se amaron y se casaron.”
Fuente: Gibran Khalil Gibran. Arena y espuma, 2016. ISBN 978-60-5043-374-6.
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 147.
Fuente: Arena y espuma.
“El ruiseñor se niega anidar en la jaula, para que la esclavitud no sea el destino de su cría.”
Fuente: [Palomo Triguero] (2013), p. 116.
“Los recuerdos son un traspié en el sendero de la esperanza.”
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Las nueve desdichas", 1963 (póstuma).
“Vivir en la mente es esclavitud, a menos que la mente se haya convertido en una parte del cuerpo.”
Fuente: Dichos espirituales, "Dichos", 1963 (póstuma).
“Hacer amistad con el ignorante es tan tonto como discutir con el borracho.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 294.
“El tirano reclama vino dulce de las uvas ácidas.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 407.
Gibran Jalil Gibran: Frases en inglés
“Master, master singer,
Master of words unspoken”
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Master, master singer,
Master of words unspoken,
Seven times was I born, and seven times have I died
Since your last hasty visit and our brief welcome.
And behold I live again,
Remembering a day and a night among the hills,
When your tide lifted us up.
John The Beloved Disciple In His Old Age: On Jesus The Word
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: We are all sons and daughters of the Most High, but the Anointed One was His first-born, who dwelt in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and He walked among us and we beheld Him.
All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.
The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.
“Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.”
John At Patmos: Jesus The Gracious
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus.
We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment.
Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers,
The free men, unshackled,
Sons of your mother earth and space.
They are like the birds of the sky,
And like the lilies of the field.
They live your life and think your thoughts,
And they echo your song.
But they are empty-handed,
And they are not crucified with the great crucifixion,
And therein is their pain.
The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.
"Love"
The Forerunner (1920)
Contexto: O love, whose lordly hand
Has bridled my desires,
And raised my hunger and my thirst
To dignity and pride,
Let not the strong in me and the constant
Eat the bread or drink the wine
That tempt my weaker self.
Let me rather starve,
And let my heart parch with thirst,
And let me die and perish,
Ere I stretch my hand
To a cup you did not fill,
Or a bowl you did not bless.
Your Thought and Mine
Contexto: Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads. My thought speaks softly in my ears, "Be clean in body and spirit even if you have nowhere to lay your head." Your thought makes you aspire to titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service.
“My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying.”
Your Thought and Mine
Contexto: My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve.
You have your thought and I have mine.
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.
Introduction
The Madman (1918)
The Prophet (1923)
Contexto: Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Khalil in Spirits Rebellious (1908) "Khalil The Heretic" Part 3
Contexto: Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life. This is the truth which I have learned from the teachings of the Nazarene.
Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself."
And then He walked away.
But no other man ever walked the way He walked. Was it a breath born in my garden that moved to the east? Or was it a storm that would shake all things to their foundations?
I knew not, but on that day the sunset of His eyes slew the dragon in me, and I became a woman, I became Miriam, Miriam of Mijdel.
Your Thought and Mine
Contexto: Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. In your thought there are the rich, the poor, and the beggared. My thought holds that there are no riches but life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself.
John The Beloved Disciple In His Old Age: On Jesus The Word
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth. He saw the Father's face reflected in the quiet pools, and the faint print of His feet upon the sand; and He often closed His eyes to gaze into the Holy Eyes.
The night spoke to Him with the voice of the Father, and in solitude He heard the angel of the Lord calling to Him. And when He stilled Himself to sleep He heard the whispering of the heavens in His dreams.
He was often happy with us, and He would call us brothers.
Behold, He who was the first Word called us brothers, though we were but syllables uttered yesterday.
Sarkis an old Greek Shepherd, called the madman: Jesus and Pan
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: "And now let us play our reeds together."
And they played together.
And their music smote heaven and earth, and a terror struck all living things.
I heard the bellow of beasts and the hunger of the forest. And I heard the cry of lonely men, and the plaint of those who long for what they know not.
I heard the sighing of the maiden for her lover, and the panting of the luckless hunter for his prey.
And then there came peace into their music, and the heavens and the earth sang together.
All this I saw in my dream, and all this I heard.
Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: There are the men who say, "He preached tenderness and kindliness and filial love, yet He would not heed His mother and His brothers when they sought Him in the streets of Jerusalem."
They do not know that His mother and brothers in their loving fear would have had Him return to the bench of the carpenter, whereas He was opening our eyes to the dawn of a new day.
His mother and His brothers would have had Him live in the shadow of death, but He Himself was challenging death upon yonder hill that He might live in our sleepless memory.
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Master, Master Poet,
Master of our silent desires,
The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart,
But it burns not with your song.
The world sits listening to your voice in tranquil delight,
But it rises not from its seat
To scale the ridges of your hills.
Man would dream your dream but he would not wake to your dawn
Which is his greater dream.
He would see with your vision,
But he would not drag his heavy feet to your throne.
Yet many have been enthroned in your name
And mitred with your power,
And have turned your golden visit
Into crowns for their head and sceptres for their hand.
Mary Magdalen (Thirty years later): On the Resurrection of the Spirit
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Once again I say that with death Jesus conquered death, and rose from the grave a spirit and a power. And He walked in our solitude and visited the gardens of our passion.
He lies not there in that cleft rock behind the stone.
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
“And now let us play our reeds together.”
Sarkis an old Greek Shepherd, called the madman: Jesus and Pan
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: "And now let us play our reeds together."
And they played together.
And their music smote heaven and earth, and a terror struck all living things.
I heard the bellow of beasts and the hunger of the forest. And I heard the cry of lonely men, and the plaint of those who long for what they know not.
I heard the sighing of the maiden for her lover, and the panting of the luckless hunter for his prey.
And then there came peace into their music, and the heavens and the earth sang together.
All this I saw in my dream, and all this I heard.
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers,
The free men, unshackled,
Sons of your mother earth and space.
They are like the birds of the sky,
And like the lilies of the field.
They live your life and think your thoughts,
And they echo your song.
But they are empty-handed,
And they are not crucified with the great crucifixion,
And therein is their pain.
The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.
The Forerunner (1920)
Contexto: You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.
Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.
A Philosopher: On Wonder And Beauty
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: He knew the depth of beauty, He was for ever surprised by its peace and its majesty; and He stood before the earth as the first man had stood before the first day.
We whose senses have been dulled, we gaze in full daylight and yet we do not see. We would cup our ears, but we do not hear; and stretch forth our hands, but we do not touch. And though all the incense of Arabia is burned, we go our way and do not smell.
“You ask why I call Him the first Word.”
John The Beloved Disciple In His Old Age: On Jesus The Word
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: You ask why I call Him the first Word.
Listen, and I will answer:
In the beginning God moved in space, and out of His measureless stirring the earth was born and the seasons thereof.
Then God moved again, and life streamed forth, and the longing of life sought the height and the depth and would have more of itself.
Then God spoke thus, and His words were man, and man was a spirit begotten by God's Spirit.
And when God spoke thus, the Christ was His first Word and that Word was perfect; and when Jesus of Nazareth came to the world the first Word was uttered unto us and the sound was made flesh and blood.
"Love"
The Forerunner (1920)
Contexto: O love, whose lordly hand
Has bridled my desires,
And raised my hunger and my thirst
To dignity and pride,
Let not the strong in me and the constant
Eat the bread or drink the wine
That tempt my weaker self.
Let me rather starve,
And let my heart parch with thirst,
And let me die and perish,
Ere I stretch my hand
To a cup you did not fill,
Or a bowl you did not bless.
Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
The barriers of flesh and bone fell down when the Poet of Galilee spoke to me; and I was held by a spirit, and was lifted to the heights, and in midair my wings gathered the song of passion.
And when I dismounted from the wind and in the Sanhedrim my pinions were shorn, even then my ribs, my featherless wings, kept and guarded the song. And all the poverties of the lowlands cannot rob me of my treasure.
I have said enough. Let the deaf bury the humming of life in their dead ears. I am content with the sound of His lyre, which He held and struck while the hands of His body were nailed and bleeding.
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Master, Master Poet,
Master of our silent desires,
The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart,
But it burns not with your song.
The world sits listening to your voice in tranquil delight,
But it rises not from its seat
To scale the ridges of your hills.
Man would dream your dream but he would not wake to your dawn
Which is his greater dream.
He would see with your vision,
But he would not drag his heavy feet to your throne.
Yet many have been enthroned in your name
And mitred with your power,
And have turned your golden visit
Into crowns for their head and sceptres for their hand.
John At Patmos: Jesus The Gracious
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I?
When love becomes vast love becomes wordless.
And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
Your Thought and Mine
Contexto: Your thought sees power in armies, cannons, battleships, submarines, aeroplanes, and poison gas. But mine asserts that power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. Your thought differentiates between pragmatist and idealist, between the part and the whole, between the mystic and materialist. Mine realizes that life is one and its weights, measures and tables do not coincide with your weights, measures and tables. He whom you suppose an idealist may be a practical man.
“I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul.”
Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul. I was living apart from this self which you now see. I belonged to all men, and to none. They called me harlot, and a woman possessed of seven devils. I was cursed, and I was envied.
But when His dawn-eyes looked into my eyes all the stars of my night faded away, and I became Miriam, only Miriam, a woman lost to the earth she had known, and finding herself in new places.
“Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting.”
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting.
You and I know the jugglers of words who would honor only a greater juggler, men who carry their heads in baskets to the market-place and sell them to the first bidder.
We know the pygmies who abuse the sky-man. And we know what the weed would say of the oak tree and the cedar.
I pity them that they cannot rise to the heights.
Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Contexto: Master, Master Poet,
Master of words sung and spoken,
They have builded temples to house your name,
And upon every height they have raised your cross,
A sign and a symbol to guide their wayward feet,
But not unto your joy.
Your joy is a hill beyond their vision,
And it does not comfort them.
They would honour the man unknown to them.
And what consolation is there in a man like themselves, a man whose
kindliness is like their own kindliness,
A god whose love is like their own love,
And whose mercy is in their own mercy?
They honour not the man, the living man,
The first man who opened His eyes and gazed at the sun
With eyelids unquivering.
Nay, they do not know Him, and they would not be like Him.
