secular life
Living without faith
Secular life refers to existence outside religious institutions or spiritual devotion—the ordinary world of work, family, and civic participation rather than monastic or clerical life.
Someone leaves secular life to become a nun; someone else returns to secular life after leaving the priesthood.
The phrase often appears in religious contexts to distinguish between worldly and sacred pursuits: He struggled to balance secular life with his spiritual practice.
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- everydayOccurring each day
- daily grindWearisome regular routine
- laityNon-ordained church members
this world · lay person · private citizen · temporal · profane · material · earthly · ordinary · civil · non-religious · career · paying bills · marriage · household · commerce · citizenship · work · taxes
- Israeli culturefalafel, hummus, kibbutz, Tel Aviv, Hebrew
- lifestylessimple living, minimalism, self-care, healthy eating, communal living
secular lifemonastic life
Religious community living
religious life · monasticism · cloistered life · contemplative life · ascetic life
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