Chapter 01 — Curiosity
Religions that, in practice, demanded blind faith. Science that denied purpose. Spirituality that offered poetry instead of precision. Each path carried a piece of the truth. But none held the whole picture.
She looked in churches.
In Afro-Brazilian temples.
In mosques.
In Buddhist temples.
In spiritist centers.
In ayahuasca circles.
In the books of Hawking, Sagan, and Dawkins.
On every path, she found something real:
genuine people, sincere faith, true devotion.
Science explained the how,
but avoided the why.
Religion offered the why,
but without a logic for the how.
Each path carried a fragment of the truth.
But none revealed the whole.
No one had yet managed to answer
in a way that made sense
to the heart
and to reason.
Lira still hadn't found the answers.
But she hadn't stopped looking, either.
— Excerpt from Ch. 1 · Architect of Myself
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