Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.