It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

William Ralph Inge
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The world is a very real place to us. It seems so real that we forget about the fact that there is another, even greater reality. If we take a step back and look at the world from a higher perspective, it becomes apparent that this whole situation of life is a dream. We are not really here on Earth.

We are only here because we have been dreaming all of these wonderful things up from our own mind. While we live in this world of uncertainty, it is important that we remain grounded in the fact that there is something greater than this world and our lives are not what they seem to be. Because of God’s love for us, He has given us the grace of knowing how beautiful our souls truly are and how important a part of God’s dream we play in this world of our own creation.

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