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Thunder Perfect Mind

For I am the first and the last.

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin.

I am the barren one and many are my sons.

I am the silence that is incomprehensible.

I am the utterance of my name.

– Gnostic Text

"Do you believe in an eternal life in a world to come?"

"No, but I do believe in an eternal life in the here and now. There are moments when time suddenly stands still, and gives place to eternity."

– Fyodor Dostoevsky