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 a 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 on 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
- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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