Sunday, November 27, 2022

On The Religious Architecture of Water

One of my recent articles on Medium. Here's a sample:

If you want to know what someone believes, don’t ask them what they believe. Ask them where they spend their time, energy, and money.

Because the things that we genuinely believe are things we act on.

The result is that over time our deepest beliefs wind up taking on concrete forms. One pebble at a time, we build mounds and walls. One small decision after another adds on to long history of similar decisions.

And soon the landscape around us becomes the outward form of our inward beliefs.

You can find the rest of the article here.