Friday, January 07, 2011

Vocation Contemplation: A New Wave of Thought

I've been engrossed in 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller. Though I'd like to explore the concept of 'vocation' in future posts, for now I'd like to share a significant quote.

"Work is love made visible.  And if you cannot work with love but only with 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 distills 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.  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."
-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Wrap your head with that material,

Z

No comments:

Post a Comment