Henri J.m. NouwenThe spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. This means that people who do not follow religion are often more visible than those who do. Those who use nature to give them peace are less visible than those who use nature to make them ill. People who believe in the spiritual life are often less visible because they use it to make themselves more visible. The spiritual life gives us deeper access to nature and the world around us, but it doesn’t remove us from our involvement in it.
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