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The speaker is saying that faith became less dependent on external ideals like beauty or acceptance over time. As the practice deepened, even those needs mattered less, suggesting a more stripped-down and inward form of belief.
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About G. Willow Wilson
American comics writer, prose author, and essayist
Gwendolyn Willow Wilson is an American comics writer, prose author, and essayist. Her work is most often described as magical realism, and she is best known for writing across comics and prose. Wilson writes in several forms, moving between graphic storytelling, fiction, and essays. Her work is associated with magical realism, a mode that blends everyday life with elements that feel unreal or extraordinary.
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Books by G. Willow Wilson
Alif the unseen
2012
The Butterfly Mosque
2010