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  • 271 | Unexpected :: Hallstatt, Austria, 2016

    271 | Unexpected :: Hallstatt, Austria, 2016

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    I know, more skulls?? But these are super fancy and decorated. Why you ask? Smithsonian has the answer! TLDR: All across Europe there was a space issue in graveyards, and since Catholics have to be buried underground, churches started reusing the graveyards by clearing out old bones. They started putting them on display to teach…

  • 096 | Faith :: Cuzco, Peru, 2011

    096 | Faith :: Cuzco, Peru, 2011

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    What do you see when you look up at the night sky? The Incas saw a shepherd, a fox, a baby llama and its mama llama, a toad, and a serpent. In addition to looking at the constellations, the Incas also saw life in the spaces in between, the dark voids in the Milky Way,…

  • The Road Less Traveled

    The Road Less Traveled

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    It is not by chance that I stumbled onto this book, some may even call it serendipitous. The Road Less Traveled starts with this proclamation: life is difficult. It’s not a foreign concept, as Buddha has always taught us life is about suffering, and Christians are expected to endure tribulations on earth and suffer for…

  • Proof of Miracle

    Proof of Miracle

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    I just finished reading Proof of Heaven, a neurosurgeon’s account of his near death experience where he claims to have seen, or better put, experienced heaven. It’s an interesting book, he wrote it from the perspective of a scientist who, while true to his faith as a Christian, was skeptical or at least uncertain when…

  • Agree to Disagree

    Agree to Disagree

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    The National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur is only open to tourists at certain hours, and I waited patiently in the blazing sun for quite a while before donning a purple robe that covered me from head to toe and walking up the cold stone stairs that led to the mosque. It was not at all…

  • Gods in Ruins

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    I distinctively recall receiving my first copies of the Illiad and the Odyssey. The former was dark green and the latter a deep shade of maroon, both with simple line drawings of warriors on the cover. They were Chinese translated versions of course, and simplified for the young reader that I was. Of the two I preferred…

  • A Divine Encounter

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    Photo not by me. I found it here. I had almost forgotten about this encounter if not for a discussion with Bryan re: religion on a bus ride to the Melbourne Airport.  A couple of days earlier we had talked about spirituality during an evening stroll back to our hotel, when Bryan’s friend summarized (somewhat appropriately)…