Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

Be what it is that you are seeking.

Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Your reputation is none of your business.

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

God goes to work with you and does the laundry with you too. There's no place that God is not.