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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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