It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.