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When prayer feels natural after years away

I started praying again after ten years and it feels like riding a bicycle, which makes me wonder if muscle memory can exist for things that might not be real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The return of familiar spiritual practices raises questions about whether comfort indicates truth or merely psychological conditioning.

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