Seven words

Khalil Gibran once said that people will never understand one another unless language is reduced to seven words.

This quote has been taken from his work of Poetry called “Sand and Foam”. Khalil Gibran uses the number “seven” very frequently in his work. In the same work he has used the number “seven” eleven times.

As I researched online I found that the number seven is sacred in most religions.

In the same work he also says:

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

I wonder which half this quote that the Daily Prompt has given us today belongs to and whether we should really be trying to reduce the language to seven words. Maybe what he was trying to say was that to understand each other we should reduce the unnecessary words and get to the point. Just like when sending a signal, noise should be kept to a minimum, if at all.

And so I will keep this post short. I think you will get my point better.

Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders

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2. Seven Words | Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | likereadingontrains
3. Daily Post: Seven Wonders? | Pen and Pixels
4. Seven. | Crossroads
5. My.Vivid.Visions | Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders – I feel, you feel, becomes we feel
6. Early Grave – Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | smoke&mirrors
7. summing it up | bodhisattvaintraining
8. Nostalgia | Nature Activities
9. Seven words | James Clegg
10. Seven Wonders of the Word | MC’s Whispers
11. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | veryvanessalynn
12. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | The Fountain
13. Seven | The Magic Black Book
14. Who Made The Most Sense Khalil Gibran or George Carlin? | The Jittery Goat
15. Seven Wonders | Relax
16. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Under the Monkey Tree
17. My Seven Words | Life Confusions
18. The Only Seven Words Left In The World | sayanything
19. Daily post: Seven words. Or alternatively… | helen meikle’s scribblefest
20. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders « Mama Bear Musings
21. Daily Prompt: Seven little words for a blustery Monday | Nicki
22. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Randomize ME
23. A Poem: Seven Wonders | I Hope You’re Taking Notes
24. Seven Leaves (Daily Prompt) | photo potpourri
25. SEVEN WORDS THAT MAKE US | crookedeyebrows
26. Reduction of Languange | mutatiomagistra
27. 7 | Hope* the happy hugger
28. Super Seven | thinkerscap
29. My Apologies to George Carlin | Not a Punk Rocker
30. Seven Stars | alienorajt
31. How to order coffee with the (un?)necessary complexity of human language | Rob’s Surf Report
32. You got me | dawnyhosking
33. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | robbiesdailyplanet
34. The Seven Words | Flowers and Breezes
35. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Crow Arrow, Inc.
36. Communication | Rock it classy
37. Touched by Seven. | Blue Loft
38. Seven Words… | Haiku By Ku
39. Words of Wisdom | meanderedwanderings
40. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Awl and Scribe
41. In Seven Words.. | That girl with the spectrespecs
42. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
43. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Of Glass & Paper
44. Seven Words | Momma Said There’ld Be Days Like This
45. Daily Prompt: Seven Words | …and she writes
46. What Is It About The Number Seven? | Just Visiting This Planet
47. Seven Steps to Successful Pumpkin Carving | It’s a wonderful F’N life
48. How To Communicate With Your Spouse In Seven Words Or Less! | The Political and Social Chaos Blog
49. Not enough | Life is great
50. DAILY PROMPT: SEVEN WORDS, SEVEN MYSTERIES | SERENDIPITY
51. Just seven words. | ExLibrisMachina
52. Seven | The Land Slide Photography
53. Seven sounds of music | Processing the life
54. RAINBOW | Randomlyabstract’s Blog
55. Seven | Brianne Writes
56. I see on this Earth: | The Visionary Hollow
57. 7 for all Mankind? | The Silver Leaf Journal
58. Daily Prompt: Seven Wonders | Books and Movies

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