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"Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it," is a pretty famous line from the Bible, the book of Psalms to be exact. It was written by a famous wise man, King Solomon, of "split the baby" fame.
The Bible is chockfull of wisdom, without doubt. But I'm much more comfortable these days quoting a line from the Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)
than I am quoting from the Bible (though I know it very well) because so much of what is said about the Bible is sectarian; that is, religion in service to the ego, as Eckhart Tolle puts it in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61).![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s6f1iHzEC1EX29MfOYm70NEMgeGfcukao2fLmm8uHg2UwGAk3Hf4N27ftVLvY5J7EfcJ4EDSU9UF6_9fSMLSWa1fbjjMZnv2y-JRolOlb1AQ8pbGBoLD5OakmvV2cxpqdt8skFkZow7g=s0-d)