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"Since then, of course, I have read other spiritual books, but I believe that in my youth, when I was inclined towards atheism, these two books, the Prophet and even more influentially, the Gitanjali by Tagore, they were instrumental in making me shift from my belief from a materialistic point of view to a spiritual point of view. And in that sense, they influenced the future direction my life would take."