How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

Peter Barnes
How do you know when you're God?
How do you know when you're God?
How do you know when you're God?
How do you know when you're God?
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In the movie, Good Will Hunting, two men – one a genius and the other a struggling therapist – meet and ask each other this question: "How do you know when you're God?" The answer: "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself." The great psychologist Carl Jung believed that we all talk to ourselves enough for two. Yet we don't always recognize it.

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