it's so funny how one moment we can be so convicted and the next so lethargic.

can i start off with some interesting bites?

"The spiritual journey is one of continuously falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God and taking another step." - Sri Aurobindo

Confucius said that it does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you don't stop.

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Dr. Andrew Newberg has developed a biological theory that says there is a neurological basis for the great human hunger for God.

Newberg and d'Aquili teamed up in the 1990s. Together, they worked to refine and test the latter's theory, using imaging technology to map the brains of Tibetan Buddhist Monks deep in meditation and Franciscan nuns in deep contemplative prayer. The photographic results appeared to be pictures of the brain in a state of mystical transcendence.

Vince Rause interviewed Newberg and wrote a compelling article, "The Science of God: Searching for the Divine":

Newberg tells me something I'm not sure I can grasp: that the fabled "higher reality" described by mystics might, in fact, be real.

"You mean figuratively real," I say with a troubled squint.

"No," he says, "As real as this table. More real, in fact."

"You're saying your research proved this higher reality exsists?" I ask.

"I'm saying the possibility of such a reality is not inconsistent with science," he says.

"But you can't observe such a thing in a scientific way, can you?"

Newberg grins. He hasn't simply observed such a state; he has managed to take its picture.

"Does this mean that God is just a perception generated by the brain, or has the brain been wired to experience the reality of God?" I ask.

"The best and most rational answer I can give to both questions," Newberg answers, "is yes."

Their research suggests that all these feelings are rooted not in emotion or wishful thinking but in the genetically arranged wiring of the brain.

"Religion thrives in an age of reason," Newberg says.

- Soultypes, Robert Norton & Richard Southern

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julie, can you believe?

julie, can you tell yourself that kindness is not weakness?

julie, do you know what you want the most in the world?

julie, who do you want more, him or Him??

i know one day when i'm more ready i can have both, but right now. what's the right choice?

so obvious isn't it.

and though my heart is ready to let go,
my flesh keeps clinging on.

clinging on for the acceptance, the joy, the love.

i know He loves me more though.
just wish it were more tangible.

julie, can you stop being in the middle?

can you make a choice, now??

one day again..

i'll be in malaysia from tomorrow. should be about a week until my return. yup i'll make sure i take lots of pictures with my little cousins =) they're so cute. haha. see you. for now.