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There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

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God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.
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