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Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

— Lily Tomlin

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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

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All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
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