Essay on Kahlil Gibran's Self knowledge

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.”

Do I need to go after my heart's belief or rebuff it? This inquiry stimulates me to pay attention in my heart proposal. When I was immature I keep on asking my grandmother on what case that we can use our heart to come to a decision in a certain thing. But now that I grown-up in terms on how I perceive life, I already comprehend what my grandmother is trying to recommend. She suggests that we need to use our heart in   measuring particular things because she added our heart can’t recline instead it always coincide to what we want. Our hearts contain the intellect to detect our hidden thoughts; we can’t hide from our feelings. This organ knows how we sense and what we suffer. We ourselves know what our hearts want. Even how powerful and intelligent a person is but when it comes to feelings and emotions they became dull. It’s a matter of meditating in how far you can decide using your brain and heart. These organs play a vital role in molding us to be a better and competent person in this world with full of competition. Our heart’s knowledge is indeed very important since this is the center in our being and if a person’s heart is not functioning it means the person is dead.

My Painting about Self-knowledge

           I draw as I interpret the poem of Kahlil Gibran's Self-Knowledge. The bulb represent knowledge, the small person at the top symbolizes significant others and of course the human signify as self the real you, the big hands stand for the upholding of your self identity and awareness, the plant inside the bulb correspond to the development of our awareness as we grow mature in terms on how we perceive life, the heart with chain embody the domination of our feelings together with our comprehension. The overall illustration characterize the expansion of our attentiveness as we take the maturity level of person and with the help of your significant others we can widen your indulgent on how to worn this build in knowledge. The reason why I portray my though is to confirm that it is not the school, teacher, the high-tech materials and whatever learning resources but the most essential is the learner because it matters to his or her comprehension.

Painting Reflection

             I draw as I interpret the poem of Kahlil Gibran's Self-Knowledge. The bulb represent knowledge, the small persom at the top symbolizes significant others and of course the human signify as self the real you, the big hands stand for the upholding of your self identity and awareness, the plant inside the bulb correspond to the development of our awareness as we grow mature in terms on how we percieve life, the heart with chain embody the domination of our feelings together with our comprehension. The overall illustration characterize the expansion of our attentiveness as a we take the maturity level of  person and with the help of your significant others we can widen your indulgent on how to worn this build in knowledge. The reason why I portray my though is to confirm that it is not the school, teacher, the hightech materials and whatever learning resources but the most essential is the learner because it matters to his or her comprehention.

My second choice of Kahlil Gibran poetic essay

On Prayer
 Kahlil Gibran

 

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.


For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?
And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.
For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.


I cannot teach you how to pray in words. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,
"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.


It is thy desire in us that desireth.
It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."

Self-Knowledge

Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet)

by Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) Original Language English

And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.

And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

                 The most stiking lines from the poem of Kahlil Gibran  self knowledge is this satement " And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure." This means that you cannot hide anything because when you looked someones eyes you will know what the person is trying to say. We should not understamate the person's feeling because we don't know what he/she feels about something. Accoring to my classmate in the context of education he said, " It is not the teacher, the curriculum and the instructional materials but it is on the learner. Meaning to say we have our own self knowledge which is planted inside. According to John B. Watson our brain is like a blank sheet or the tabularasa concept but he added everything can be learn. As we grow our mental capabilities also develop and this is our treasure that we must be proud of. In our studies we used our instinc in cooperation of our mind and that help us to decide.

What I want to be 5 years from now

                 Probably, five years from now I want to see myself as a call center agent working in a international call center agency particularly in United States of America. I prefer this exertion because I want to aggravate my speaking skills using the english language. After rendering several years on this employment  I also plan to apply at Christ the King College as a English teacher hince I want to serve my alma mater but before that I want to accomplish first my masteral degree in english so that the school where I want to bestow will acquire me  with certitude and proud.

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