Faith is not in your temples
It's not in your mosques or churches
Faith has no place no house no dominion
None save the boundaries of your mind
Faith is not found in the following of tradition
Nor in the ritualistic consumption of evangelist propaganda
It is not in the rules and books we read
Only in our own hearts
Faith has seen stronger hearts and deeper wounds
It has seen into the emptiness of your being
Faith has held you when you're at your weakest
And sometimes abandoned you in your blindness
Faith has brought hope and despair and love and hate, and all those complexities of human emotion
It does not ask, it does not command
It only wishes you be true to you
No, Faith has not given me a path
But only given me strength to choose my own
-Ritu Valluri Rao
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