I was wandering through the Internet and found a black and white photograph I thought was beautiful. I was working on pencil drawings at the time and thought the photo would make a great drawing. I lost the photograph but not my drawing! If anyone has gotten lost in the woods, I'm sure they know the anxiety of feeling lost. This drawing represents faith. Not just Christians can cultivate faith, if I think about it, all people have faith in something greater than their feet of clay.

I am a Buddhist and much of my practices revolves around faith. Although experiences are important for verification, I know I won't reach enlightenment in this lifetime, this is where faith comes into play. I've tasted the fruit of bliss in meditation, I don't have blind faith based on someone else's words. I have faith in the Dharma teachings, the Buddha, and the Sangha. Instead of focusing on our differences we can focus on our faith we hold in common, which all valid religions speak of, faith in wise compassion, wisdom, and wise loving kindness

I didn't know: From the 9th century the official religion in the Bulgarian Empire is the orthodox Christianity. Before that the religion of the Bulgarians was monotheistic and very similar to the Zoroastrianism. As a matter of fact, the prophet Zoroaster was born and died in the capital city of Bactria: Balh. D-r Dorian Alexandrov believes the so-called Eagle of Asparukh, which depicts a stuggle between an eagle and a snake is also connected with the proto-Bulgarian dualistic view of the world. The eagle is part of the Voznesenka Golden Treasure. Academic Jordan Ivanov finds similarities between the pre-islamic persian religion, and Bogomilism. The medieval Bulgarian writer Prezviter Kozma, in his “lecture against the Bogomils”, describes in details their dualistic practites, and their blend with the new Christian religion. The historian Plamen Pavlov accepts the riot of a leader called Traval (1084-1086), chief of the Bulgarian Paulician community was a result of the pre-Christian Bulgar believes. The name of the God in the Bulgarian religion is called Tangra, according to Veselin Beshevliev. In his view Tangra means “sky”, and he connects the word with the term Tien(sky). In central Asia there is mountain peak with the similar name: Khan Tengri, in the mountain TianShan. Peter Dobrev derives the word from the Pamirian “Tandra” which is the god of thunder in certain Pamiri tribes

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