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“I began to walk toward the edge of the fifty-foot-high rocky cliff. I felt no hurry and no hesitation. I felt no hope and no fear. There was Nothing within and Nothing without. The sea below seemed to beckon. I had no more will. I was following another will, a will without pity and without pain. I had no fear of death. I had already died. I was impervious.”
— Jul 19, 2026 09:46AM
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“‘I mean I died inside. I was totally helpless. I didn’t control my body anymore and my body didn’t control my world anymore.’
She said, ‘That must have been a horrible experience for you.’
He replied, ‘It was the most precious experience of my life. I tasted death, and I tasted the sweet tang of life, and now I can see.’”
— Jul 22, 2026 08:07AM
She said, ‘That must have been a horrible experience for you.’
He replied, ‘It was the most precious experience of my life. I tasted death, and I tasted the sweet tang of life, and now I can see.’”
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“Libby once said of Eva, ‘She’s a little piece of God. She’s broken off of God and fallen to earth. That’s why she’s broken.’ Literally, of course, that’s pantheism, and idolatry. But poetically, it’s profound.”
— Jul 21, 2026 09:06AM
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“Mama had crossed the sea of light and I was left alone in the dark. She had gone up in a chariot of fire and I was left in the water. My attempts at prayers fell like birds without wings. I had been preparing for this moment for months, yet nothing could possibly have prepared me for this moment. It was too big.”
— Jul 19, 2026 09:30AM
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“If the Almighty should solicit my advice for designing an afterlife for animals, I would suggest that a heaven for dogs and a hell for rabbits can be combined very economically.”
— Jul 05, 2026 08:14AM
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“I wonder: if I am not able to love the girl with a beautiful soul in the ugly body, does that mean I have an ugly soul?”
— Jul 04, 2026 07:53AM
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“He tended to stare at a person, unaware of how uncomfortable this made others feel. He had the owl-like habit of turning his neck and head rather than his eyes when he turned to the side. He always preferred to stare straight ahead, like an angel.”
— Jul 04, 2026 07:51AM
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“The meaning of life is absolutely simple. It is simply Islam, Surrender, Submission, unqualified Yes to the Perfect Will of Allah.”
— Jul 02, 2026 03:14PM