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I was also learning that every single person in the world had been hurt by their family at some point.
we were all nourished and cherished by our families, and at the same time limited and defined by them—
always felt slightly intimidated by the idea of getting married or having children, but maybe it was nothing to be afraid of.
Every life has its share of problems, and there’s no way of knowing when that same distress might pass through me again. It’s possible another illness might trigger another upset.
I’m always interested in seeing deeply into the heart of things. Seeing into the heart of things is very different from seeing things through a personal, subjective lens.
All you can do is look. And feel.
A river is a strange thing. It invariably harbors a quality of menace that can make your hair stand on end. Even on clear days, when the water flowed smoothly and the sunlight glinted off the shallows and made the plants on the bank sparkle, I always felt that the river was somehow connected to something dark, deep, and frightening.
And yet, when I traveled to other cities, I always found that a view without a river was of no interest to me at all.
Perhaps that was because the inherent stillness of my nature made me crave the si...
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It was how I came to understand that what made a river frightening was the chilling infinitude of time itself.
pursuing your own interests or
preoccupations, instead of treating them as somehow shameful, would make life easier and lighter, so I quit being embarrassed about engaging in these seemingly useless thoughts.
think the lights of people’s lives must just naturally feel warm.”
“I think the light you see comes from the people inside. The light inside them shines out, and that’s where the glow really comes from.
Because you can easily feel lonely even with all the lights on.”
A show house could be lit up like a chandelier and it wouldn’t make you feel a thing.
“Some people can’t resist trying to take what doesn’t belong to them,”
Every day, people all around the world direct one urgent question its way: Why me? Why did this have to happen to me?
They don’t realize that your mind can be as spacious and as wide-open as you want. Most people don’t even try to see the treasure that lies inside the people they know,”
