{"id":2070,"date":"2023-04-16T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/kahlil-gibran-on-the-art-of-becoming-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T03:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T07:55:30","slug":"kahlil-gibran-on-the-art-of-becoming-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/kahlil-gibran-on-the-art-of-becoming-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The unfolding of life does more than fray our bodies with entropy \u2014 it softens our spirit, blunting the edge of vanity and broadening the aperture of beauty, so that we become both more ourselves and more unselved, awake to the felicitous interdependence of the world. And yet the selves we have been \u2014 young and foolish, hungry for the wrong things, hopeful for the right but winged by hope into hubris \u2014 are elemental building blocks of who we become, unsheddable like the hydrogen and helium that made the universe. Joan Didion knew this when she observed that \u201cwe are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.\u201d<\/a> Jane Ellen Harrison knew it when, in her superb meditation on the art of growing older<\/a>, she cautioned that \u201cyou cannot unroll that snowball which is you: there is no \u2018you\u2019 except your life \u2014 lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

That transmutation and integration is what poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran<\/strong> (January 6, 1883\u2013April 10, 1931) takes up with uncommon soulfulness in his long poem \u201cYouth and Age,\u201d<\/a> penned in his early forties, shortly after he completed The Prophet<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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