Write a paragraph of three sentences explaining the statement.

It will help you

Respect is the feeling of regarding someone well for their qualities or traits, also respect
can be the action of treating people with dignity and appreciation. Every profession is
important in its own way. There are many things, which we can’t do, and if someone is
doing that for us then respect should automatically come for that profession and for that
person. Every profession deserves respect because every one of those people are
contributing to the society.

2. Without struggles, we would learn nothing about life.

Without struggle, we don't know how life is beautiful. By these, we see the reality of life.
We feel our worth every struggles we take by learning the value of important things in
our life. For me without struggle life is nothing. Because our struggle part teaches the
best lesson of our life.

3. The separation we feel from other people and all forms of life while on earth is not real.

There is this metaphor for the mystery of life: We come into the world, try to make sense
of it, and then go back to where we came from. At the end of our days, life can
sometimes feel like a short dream.

4. Your children come through you but not from you.

We can care for them and offer them what we can, but we can’t make them think like us
or believe like us. And we shouldn’t want to because they will need different thoughts
and beliefs to navigate a world we can’t foresee. They are living in their own time, just as
we are. And they were created for their time, not ours.

5. When the husband and wife are said to live together, does it mean they should be living
separately to be alone?

For some couples, sharing their hearts doesn't mean sharing a home. Living apart
together has its tangled roots in couples looking to prioritize individualism and moments
of solitude as features of long-term relationships, not roadblocks to togetherness.

FIRMING-UP ACTIVITY
As you read the whole book, you realized that its poetry but it is also a story. Try to
take it in as it is instead of trying to ‘understand’ it. Many who have read it over a lifetime will
tell you that the understanding of its meaning became clearer as they gained life experience.
Give your thoughts on the following texts taken from ‘The Prophet’
1. Love
Yield yourself fully to love, to both its highs and its lows, for it is the divine all-encompassing
power that leads you to your fullness.
 Love will not seek to possess or solicit to be possessed. It is not a possession. It allows
freedom and requires freedom in return, for love thrives in freedom. When we love we
should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God" In every
element of life, God is within us in every life form.
2. Marriage
Hold your individual notes unwaveringly, in harmony with those you love.
 Marriage is an eternal joining of souls in love, but there must be spaces in that
togetherness: room for the two souls to breathe. In marriage, love is not bondage. It is
togetherness shared, hearts freely given but not possessed. It is standing side by side,
like the supporting pillars of a temple.
3. Children
Children are the continuation of life and should be freely and lovingly allowed to grow into
their own individuality.
 Parents do not possess their children but are their loving caretakers. Do not try to make
them think and behave as a parent would, for they are their own persons. They are the
sons and daughters of life and belong to tomorrow. Life always moves forward, toward
the future.
4. Work
Love your work, proud of your part in the advancement of the world’s destiny.
 All work is noble when it is performed with love. Giving without thought of getting in
return is a godly act. We should give freely without being asked. In truth, life is both the
giver and the receiver. The giver is merely "an instrument of giving." The receiver must
share the giver's joy.
5. Prayer
In prayer, we commune with the universe. We should pray not for our needs, which are
already necessary to it, but in ecstatic meditation of our place in the Universe’s greater
frame.
 Prayers begin in the heart. As you listen in the stillness of the night, you will hear the
words of God speaking through you. He knows what you need and desire before you do.
In prayer there is comfort in pouring out your darkness and delight in pouring out your
light. When you come to prayer in sorrow, pray until you can laugh again.
6. Religion
May your daily life be your religion, as the divine is all about you and in everything you do?
 To know God is to see and recognize God in the world around a person. Faith cannot be
separated from actions nor belief from life pursuits. The hours cannot be divided into
those for God and those for self.

INTROSPECTING ACTIVITY
Write a reflection paper dealing on the following questions as bases.
1. Why is Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet so loved?
 For me because he writes of things anybody, anywhere, of any time can appreciate, in
beautiful, deceptively simple language. His book is so deep that you’ll just see how
amazing it is. It really touches your heart, especially when it comes to poems about love.
There is nothing quite like the feeling. This book has a way of speaking to people at
 different stages in their lives. It has this magical quality, the more you read it the more
you come to understand the words.

2. Of the 6 poems provided in this module which is the best poem of Khalil Gibran?
 For me it will be Kahlil Gibran on Children

3. How do you understand these poems from Khalil Gibran based from meaning and
structure?
 His poems all point to that longing for inner peace; it gives us that feeling of life that we
only as an individual can understand. Just by reading it and his over all writings I gain a
sense of calm. Full of wisdom on each and every aspect of human life from friendship to
relationship to death.

4. What are the best teachings or philosophies of Khalil Gibran for you?
 His teachings on Joy and Sorrow
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the
greater. But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one
sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
 Joy and sorrow are inseparable. They are two sides of the same thing and complement
one another. That which brings joy also brings sorrow. One emotion is not greater than
the other. Both are equally present in life, balanced like scales: one rising as the other
falls.