Substantial creative achievement demands not necessarily genius, but acumen, bent, persistence, time. - Trinh T. Minh-ha

Language also reveals its power through an insignificant slip of the pen, for no matter how one tries to subject it to control and reduce it to “pure” instrumentality, it always succeeds in giving an inkling of its irreducible governing status.

We create the dualism, not realizing that death, like life, is a process. The moment I am born, I enter the realm of death. Life and death are together one process, and we are dying every moment.

Time and space are not something entirely exterior to oneself, something that one has, keeps, saves, wastes, or loses.