You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
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In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
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