Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo

Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.