Kahlil Gibran Quotes on Soul (6 Quotes)

Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit.... Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.