Timeless Thoughts About Life | Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
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🗓️ 21 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I have temporarily lost my voice due to Covid-19, so today's podcast is the rebroadcast of an early reading from 2016.
Listen to episode 690 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Thoughts About Life. Edited and Adapted from the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Some people say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “No, sorrow is the greater.” But I say to you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at the edge of the bed, remember that the other is asleep under the sheets.
Everyone recognizes that the soul is sometimes a battlefield, one where reason and judgment wage war against passions and appetites.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, so that it may sing. And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and (like the phoenix) rise above its own ashes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inspirational living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen, |
| 0:18.1 | makers of wearable inspiration for a better world. Today's podcast has been |
| 0:23.7 | edited and adapted from the book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, published in 1922. |
| 0:37.1 | Work is the essence of life you work to keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth |
| 0:44.4 | to be idle is to become a stranger into the seasons to step out of life's procession that |
| 0:51.7 | marches in majesty and proud submission towards the |
| 0:55.0 | infinite. |
| 0:57.0 | When you work you are a flute, through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to |
| 1:03.0 | music. |
| 1:04.0 | Who of you would choose to be a read, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison. |
| 1:12.6 | Always you have been told that work is a curse, and labor a misfortune. |
| 1:18.6 | But I say to you that when you work, you fulfill a part of Earth's furthest dream, |
| 1:24.6 | assigned to you when that dream was born. In keeping yourself with labor, |
| 1:31.6 | you are in truth loving life, and to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's |
| 1:38.8 | innermost secret. Work is love made visible. If you cannot work with love but only distaste, it is better that you should leave your work |
| 1:51.0 | and be a beggar on the street, accepting charity from those who work with joy. |
| 1:57.0 | What is joy? |
| 2:00.0 | Your joy is your sorrow unmasked, and it arises from the self-same well that houses your |
| 2:06.6 | laughter and tears. |
| 2:09.6 | The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. |
| 2:16.6 | When you are joyous, look deep into your heart, |
| 2:20.3 | and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow is giving you joy. |
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