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Spirit and matter must go together. The inner life of aspiration and the outer life of manifestation must go together. Otherwise, spirit will remain all pie-in-the-sky and earth will remain all ignorance and inconscience. What I have done in weightlifting offers a golden opportunity for people who remain only in the body and do not care for the spiritual to see what can be done on the physical plane by virtue of the spiritual. And people who have spiritual awareness, who practise the prayer and meditation-life, will see how spirituality can become part and parcel of physical activity.