Every tradition has understood, at some depth, that the sacred is not reserved for temples and Sundays — that it bleeds through the ordinary if we have eyes to see it. The Zen concept of suchness, the Shinto attention to the kami in the stream and the stone, the Hasidic teaching that every act can be elevated, the African ubuntu understanding that the sacred is mediated through human encounter — all point to the same recognition: that the holy is not separate from the world but is the world seen rightly. The practice of attention — of presence, of noticing — is itself a form of prayer.
Rumi