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"But I've noticed that the more energy I put into my spiritual life, the more conscious I am of God's presence. Spiritual fitness is a lot more like physical fitness than we like to think. We like everything to be comfortable; we want to be spiritual couch potatoes, but spiritual life is more like going to the gym. Religious orders understand this...you have a regimen laid out for you which has been created over the centuries. You spend a lot of your day working on God, or working on the sacred. These regimens of marking different times of the day by prayer so that you're constantly keeping God in your mind are not accidental...This works."

- Winifred Gallagher, The Door Interview