After years of seeing this book on shelves and in bookstores and avoiding it for thorny reasons known only to me, I finally read it on my partner's recommendation, and I'm so glad that I did.

There was so much that resonated here, so much that felt familiar and reflective of my own thinking on certain subjects, so much that was new and interesting and worthy of investigation.

There were also some things that didn't work for me as much, largely some of the stuff around punishment (a little too wishy-washy to feel like useful restorative justice, but this book was also published 100 years ago), but those moments were few and far between, and I do not have to agree with everything a book says to find it important and thought-provoking and worthy of revisiting. And The Prophet is definitely all of those things for me.