ON WORK by Kahlil Gibran

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1. Prepared by: Chris Angelina R. Estigoy March 13, 2017 On Work By: Khalil Gibran

2. Prepared by: Chris Angelina R. Estigoy March 13, 2017 On Work By: Khalil Gibran

3. Khalil Gibran Born on January 6, 1883 He was a Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer. He wrote in both English and Arabic; his work shows elements of many religious faiths and great understanding of their commonalities .

4. The Prophet Gibran’s greatest literary work. The Prophet is divided into chapters dealing with; Love Marriage Children Giving Eating and Drinking Work Joy and Sorrow Houses Clothes Buying and Selling Crime and Punishment Laws Freedom Reason and Passion Pain Self-Knowledge Teaching Friendship Talking Time Good and Evil Prayer Pleasure Beauty, religion and Death

5. Unlocking Difficulties

6. Unlocking Difficulties When she gets nervous she paces back and forth. moves stops c. leads d. stays

7. Unlocking Difficulties He died from a serious affliction. bliss felicity happiness pain/suffering

8. Unlocking Difficulties She was weary from years of housework. busy exhausted interested glad

9. Unlocking Difficulties The workers were reaping the crops. damage abandon harvesting losing

10. Unlocking Difficulties “I see you still smoke,” she said with distaste. dislike satisfy content joy

11. You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison ?

12. Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to live life through is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret .

13. But if you in your pain call birth an affliction and the support of the flesh a curse written upon your brow, Then I answer that naught but the sweat of your brow shall wash away that which is written.”

14. You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, And all work is empty save when there is love; And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

15. And what is it work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, Even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, Even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, Even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.”

16. Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, “He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil. And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet .” But I say, not in sleep but in the over wakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

17. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

18. What is the value of work? Why is one’s attitude to work so important not just to oneself but also to others?

19. What have you learned today?

20. Write an essay about a job that you feel do not earn much respect . Group Activity

21. 5 minute sand timer 5 minutes End

22. Write a letter to someone who might not feel his or her work as valuable one . Assignment: