History: The Prophet: On Religion

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||On Religion| And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion."| And he said:| Have I spoken this day of aught else?| Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,| And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?| Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?| Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"| All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.| He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.| The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.| And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.| The freest song comes not through bars and wires.| And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.| 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 necessity or for delight.| For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.| And take with you all men:| 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 solver of riddles.| Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.| And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.| You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.| || ||((The Prophet|The Prophet)) |le prije ctuca / le pijyctu (the wise teacher) ((The Prophet: The Coming of the Ship)) |.i nu selklama le bloti ((The Prophet: On Love)) |lo ka prami ((The Prophet: On Marriage)) |lo nu speni ((The Prophet: On Children)) |lo panzi ((The Prophet: On Giving)) |lo nu dunda ((The Prophet: On Eating and Drinking)) |lo nu citka je pinxe ((The Prophet: On Work)) |lo zu'o gunka ((The Prophet: On Joy and Sorrow)) |lo li'i gleki je badri ((The Prophet: On Houses)) |lo zdani ((The Prophet: On Clothes)) |lo taxfu ((The Prophet: On Buying and Selling)) |lo nu tevecnu je vecnu ((The Prophet: On Crime and Punishment)) |lo zekri .e lo nu sfasa ((The Prophet: On Laws)) |lo flalu ((The Prophet: On Freedom)) |lo za'i zifre ((The Prophet: On Reason and Passion)) | lo nu krinu pensi .e lo se cinmo ((The Prophet: On Pain)) | lo nu dunku ((The Prophet: On Self-Knowledge)) | lo nu sevzi djuno ((The Prophet: On Teaching)) | lo nu ctuca ((The Prophet: On Friendship)) | lo nu pendo ((The Prophet: On Talking)) | lo nu tavla ((The Prophet: On Time)) | lo temci ((The Prophet: On Good and Evil)) | lo ka vrude .e lo ka pacna ((The Prophet: On Prayer)) | lo nu jdaselsku ((The Prophet: On Pleasure)) | lo za'i pluka ((The Prophet: On Beauty)) | lo ka melbi ((The Prophet: On Religion)) | lo lijde ((The Prophet: On Death)) | lo nu morsi ((The Prophet: The Farewell)) | le nu cusku zo co'o||