Walk the talk..

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"Oh come! let us adore HIM ....

"<br><br>UMA<br>--------------------------------<br>ADORATION<br><br> And an old

priest said, Speak to us of Religion.

And he said: <br> Have I spoken this day of aught

else? <br> Is not religion all deeds and all

reflection, <br> And that which is neither deed nor

reflection, but a wonder and a <br>surprise ever springing in

the soul, even while the hands hew the <br>stone or

tend the loom? <br> Who can separate his faith from

his actions, or his belief from <br>his occupations?

<br> Who can spread his hours before him, saying,

"This for God and <br>this for myself; This for my soul

and this other for my body"? <br> All your hours are

wings that beat through space from self to <br>self.

<br> He who wears his mortality but as his best

garment were better <br>naked. <br> The wind and the sun

will tear no holes in his skin. <br> And he who

defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird

<br>in a cage. <br> The freest song comes not through

bars and wires. <br> And he to whom worshipping is a

window, to open but also to shut, <br>has not yet visited

the house of his soul whose windows are from <br>dawn

to dawn. <br><br> Your daily life is your temple and

your religion. <br> Whenever you enter into it take

with you your all. <br> Take the plough and the forge

and the mallet and the lute, <br> The things you have

fashioned in necessity or for delight. <br> For in reverie

you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall

<br>lower than your failures. <br> And take with you all

men: <br> For in adoration you cannot fly higher than

their hopes nor <br>humble yourself lower than their

despair. <br><br> And if you would know God, be not

therefore a solver of riddles. <br> Rather look about you

and you shall see Him playing with your <br>children.

<br> And look into space; you shall see Him walking in

the cloud, <br>outstretching His arms in the

lightning and descending in rain. <br> You shall see Him

smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His <br>hands

in trees. <br><br>KAHLIL GIBRAN