A donkey that spent its entire life pulling a millstone was eventually allowed to graze freely on a meadow out of pity. Yet, the donkey ignored the vast world, choosing instead to circle a single tree step by step. It had spent its whole life learning nothing but circling. Many people are like this donkey, trapped in their own mental models for a lifetime. Unless you realize you are that donkey, you will never achieve self-transcendence.
Life sometimes requires you to be "impenetrable." You must understand that there are two ways to do this: negative impenetrability is the way of fools—using silence, denial, or isolation to hide, which is a sign of true incompetence. Positive impenetrability, however, is achieved through affirmation.
How I wish that one day I would suddenly wake up, only to find I had fallen asleep during a primary school lesson, and that everything I am experiencing is just a long dream. You tell your deskmate about the dream, and they call you an idiot, telling you to focus on the class. You look out at the playground, and everything feels so familiar and full of hope.
The changes of the heart are like the performance of a master magician—mysterious, profound, and impossible to decipher. When we truly understand, we realize it isn't complex; it is simply the heart constantly shifting.
To meet the person you are meant to meet among millions, in the vast wilderness of millennia, neither early nor late, but just in time. There are no words to say, only a gentle question: "Oh, so you are here too?"
I see and accept the pain of betrayal and deception, and in doing so, I learn to let it go. Emotions are just emotions; they come and they go. Do not avoid, hide, or suppress them. Simply "allow" them to be.
