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Metanoia

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It rolls off the tongue. It means to “change one’s mind” or “turn over a new leaf”.

Paul
Sebastolol, CA

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Scott on February 28th, 2010 5:37 pm

It means the same thing as the English, “repent:” a radical change in one’s entire way of being.

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