In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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