A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.

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 like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.