I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.