Your Daily Life is your Temple

Your daily life is your temple
and your religion.
Keep your heart in wonder
at the daily miracles of your life.

Kahlil Gibran




I live a miraculous life. I get up in the morning and I can worship all day. My temple is my blank page, my garden, this cottage and my beloved and my Beloved. All of these are reasons to be grateful.


Keeping your heart in wonder means entering the woundedness of the heart. It means having the courage (meaning to enter the heart) to live the uniqueness of the beauty in form that you are. You are inspired. Meaning you are in spirit. You are a spiritual being having an adventure in the world of time and space.


Wonder means being focused on the simple things of your life and really seeing with the eyes of the mystic within you. You might say you are not mystic but that potential resides in the heart of each and everyone of us. Your Work is to claim your birthright into this mystery called Life.


The mystic deals in wonder. They spend their daily life saying thank you and wondering how best they can serve and how to introduce others to this experience called Life. Except that in the wondrous words of Spock from the Star Trek series, "Its life Jim but not as we know it."


The life that this Irish mystic invites is the Life that is beyond the sense of ego separateness. Ego separateness is what the Master Jesus called "the dead." When he said. "Let the dead bury their dead," he was talking about you and me.

Not terribly flattering is it? Is it any wonder that he got himself cruxified. There is the Master telling the biggest egos in the land who know their law and their scripture that what they are living is dead and you wonder that he got hung out to dry. This is the risk that lovers and mystics take. As Rumi says, "Risk all for Love."


It is a truly wonderful Life but the wonderful life is beyond any sense of separateness you feel living in a body in time and space. When you awake to Life as is you still live in a body in time and space but you are alive to your eternal nature and death no longer becomes you.


This is the invitation from all mystics and lovers of wonder. Why not join them.

The above picture is "Voyage of Youth" by Cole Thomas