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When spiritual seeking meets cultural boundaries

I moved to Japan three years ago and started visiting local shrines, but I worry I'm appropriating something sacred that doesn't belong to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The heart's hunger for the sacred confronts questions of cultural belonging.

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