I'm an endless collector of quotes on work and life and the meaning of the two. When I scroll down my list, I'm always curious to note how each hits me differently. Some appeal to the heart, others to the intellect. Some call forth something heroic in me, making me want to rush in and change the world! Others whisper quietly, creating subtle shifts in perception, offering a different way of looking at the world.
This morning, I went to my list to pull out something heroic, but, instead, this quote jumped out from the screen:
"To work with love... is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth." (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet)
And maybe because today is a rainy and reflective sort of day; or maybe because this past week got filled with frenzied activity that disconnected me from my heart and from the main reason I'm doing what I'm doing - but I knew that this was going to be my quote for the day.
What would it be like if love and work co-existed easily and naturally, always, in the same space, whole and undivided? What a life it would be...
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