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Nourish the Spirit and the Body Will Be Refreshed

Spiritual growth: exploring inner territory, pushing boundaries of understanding and acceptance — getting in touch with God at the center of life. How do you do that? Retreat, read, refresh the soul, charge the inner batteries to keep a balance between the spiritual and temporal to make sure we do not lose our humanity.


In this, the beginning of the 21st century, more and more people seem to be searching for that something to fulfill their lives, make them whole. It can be a painful, exhaustive search or a delightful, surprising unfolding of experiences leading ever closer to God.

“Never start a job without the proper tools,” one man said. But what are the proper tools to gather for this search?

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