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When social media interferes with sacred moments

Every time I see a sunset I think about posting it on Instagram but then I worry that photographing it ruins the holiness of just witnessing it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The impulse to share transcendent beauty is competing with the need to preserve the purity of unmediated encounter with the divine.

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