Daily Life
I just got back from a few days in the Daintree Rainforest with friends.
Sitting on the beach yesterday, I meditated on this passage from Kahlil's Gibran's 'The Prophet'.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute,
The Things you have fashioned in neccessity or for delight.
For reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.
All take with you all menL
For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solve of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall see HIm Playing wit your children.
And look at space: your shall him walking in the cloud, outstretching his arms in the lighting and descending in rain.
Your shall see Him smiling in flowers, the rising and waving his hands in trees.
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In English.
Main takeaways:
- Your daily life is your fertile soil or evolutionary growth, not just a place you have to run away to in the mountains.
- Everything - the good and the bad - contributes to your development, if you look for it.
- Beauty is everywhere. Infinity complexity is all around us. Its in everything.
