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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Spiritually
Focusing
Transformed

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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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