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Afterlife
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There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
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― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
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But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that peo
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― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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