Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, On Religion (1923)
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When and why it was written
- When
- From The Prophet, Gibran's 1923 book of poetic essays.
- Why
- Almustafa is asked to speak of religion and answers by pointing at ordinary life.
What it means
Gibran moves the sacred out of special places and into the day: the work, the tools, the meals.
If daily life is the temple, then attention to it is a kind of devotion.
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