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Can you boil down your spiritual journey to just six words? <\/p>\n

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The writers at Killing the Buddha thing so and have collected some beautiful and thought-provoking “six-word spiritual memoirs” in the comments section of their post titled Six Word Journey<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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If you’ve never read Killing the Buddha<\/a>, you should check it out. Described as “a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God”, KtB writers map the edges of belief and unbelief in a smart, sometimes irreverent but always interesting way. Here’s the six-word journey I posted at KtB…
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Nothing. Something. Everything. Listen. Shift. Explore.<\/div>\n
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What’s yours?<\/div>\n

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