[ Gibran ] Take A Chance on Gibran

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.  
Whenever you enter into it take your all.  
Take the plow and the forge and the mallet and the lute,  
The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight.  
For in reverie you can not rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.  
And take with you all men:  
For in adoration you can not fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair.  
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet  

 
 
Make no mistake  
---Mind and Universe are one  
and the same house of worship  
 
where living Life to its fullest  
is worthwhile adoration  
---becomes forge flames fanned  
as you enjoy yourself  
at no one else's expense  
within its framed sanctum  
where exists the Heaven on Earth  
you only read about in bibles  
 
Melt down any idols of gold!  
Cast away the gods of old!  
Let there be no more doubt  
as to how bold and devout  
you are by giving it your all  
 
When in the throes of reverie  
smite the anvil with glee  
as you hammer out the details  
allowing loving Life to be  
your new religion!