Khalil Gibran's The Madman 8: A Reading For Reflection

This is the parable entitled On Giving and Taking from Khalil Gibran’s work The Madman. I invite you to take a moment to relax, listen to the short reading, and allow the words simply to fall into your awareness without intellectual grasping. Perhaps pause for a moment afterward and notice how you feel.

Transcript

A reading for reflection from Kahlil Gibran's work, The Madman, His parables and poems. On Giving and Taking Once there lived a man who had a valley full of needles. And one day the mother of Jesus came to him and said, Friend, My son's garment is torn and I must needs mend it before he goeth to the temple. Wouldst thou not give me a needle? And he gave her not a needle, But he gave her a learned discourse on giving and taking to carry to her son before he should go to the temple.