"The Prophet" By Kahlil Gibran: On Buying & Selling

This audio is reading the chapter "On Buying and Selling" of the book "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran. The merchant asks the prophet to share buying and selling, and the prophet gives a beautiful answer.

Transcript

On buying and selling an immersion said speak to us of buying and selling and he answered and said to you the earth yields her fruit and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands it is an exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger when in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the wavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices invoke then the master spirit of the earth to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and recon in that ways value against value and suffer not the barren handed to take part in your transactions who would sell their words for your labor to such men you should say come with us to the field or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net for the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us and if there come to the singers and the dancers and the flute players buy of their gifts also for they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense and that which they bring though fashions of dreams is raiment and food for your soul and before you leave the market place see that no one has gone his way with empty hands for the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied