It is both a privilege and a pleasure to include this book in our series of Spiritual Classics. Kahlil Gibran's poetic prose effortlessly lifts the mind of the serious student of the prin-ciples of right thinking and delivers, in each and every brief chapter, a spiritual understanding of such power and clarity as to stand unmatched by any other writer before or since. Gibran was a living, breathing, loving example of the true principles of right thinking and your attention is drawn in particular to his writings on Love, Giving, Buying and Selling, Prayer, and Death.