This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray [not so much*], bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers. -Terry Tempest Williams, naturalist and author (1955- )
* If to "pray" means to seek the truth, particularly in moments of fear or doubt, then I pray a lot. Consequently, I don't ask a Supreme Being to do anything for me because my seeking has revealed that there is no such a thing.
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