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Inner Alignment Isn’t About Faith vs. Logic

A bound figure faces an open doorway while another person manipulates red threads in a fractured sanctuary beneath J.C. Howard’s quote about conviction becoming managed guilt.

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It’s About Ending the Civil War Within

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“Alignment begins the moment you stop living at war with yourself.” —J.C. Howard

Every now and then, someone says something like this:

“The terms ‘inner life’ and ‘outer life’ mean nothing to me. Faith is just the graveyard of active thought.”

I appreciate that kind of honesty.

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