For the past 80 years, the beautiful words of the Lebanese-American poet, Kahlil Gibran, have graced everything from greeting cards and wedding invitations to inspirational wall hangings and corporate motivational literature. By one account, Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, after Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.   In this beautiful gift book, we discover the essential wisdom of what it means to be alive. For Gibran, life is that energy that saturates all we see and feel - as well as what we can only imagine. Here are over 100 fables, aphorisms, parables, stories and poems in that visionary voice of comfort, love and tolerance. Sections include Listening to Nature's Life, Beauty and the Song of Life, Life's Human Journey and Life as a Journey. This is an ideal gift book for all occasions and one that inspires and informs.