Poet, philosopher and artist, Kahlil Gibran wrote about twenty-five books during his lifetime. In The Prophet , Gibran talks to us about every aspect of our daily lives – love and marriage, joy and sorrow, eating and drinking, buying and selling, crime and punishment, reason and passion, self-knowledge, friendship, time, prayer, freedom and beauty, religion and death. He aims to awaken the spiritual consciousness that is inherent in all of us.