{"id":10211,"date":"2023-12-26T20:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/on-religion\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:06:38","slug":"on-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/other\/on-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"On Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ds.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/i42.photobucket.com\/albums\/e302\/littlewing777\/ds.jpg?t=1169241064\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>And an old priest said, &quot;Speak to us of Religion.&quot; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And he said: <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Have I spoken this day of aught else? <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>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? <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Who can spread his hours before him, saying, &quot;This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?&quot; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The freest song comes not through bars and wires. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>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. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Your daily life is your temple and your religion. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute, <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And take with you all men: <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And if you would know God be not therefore a solver of riddles. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Posted by: wyldwynd<\/p>\n<p>Notes: Chapter 26, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And an old priest said, &quot;Speak to us of Religion.&quot; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}