Schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn’t on a company assignment, and he...
The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist? It feels like it exists, but where is it? And if it did exist but doesn’t now, then where did it go?
She chuckled to herself and wiped her eyes with her crooked old finger. Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. S...
On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see its way home.
Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don’t know how to translate it, but basically it means that we’re spaced out and careless because we don’t understand about war...
Nowadays, in modern technological culture, sometimes we hear people complain that nothing feels real anymore. Everything in the modern world is plastic or digital or virtual. But I say, that was alway...
Now that I think of it, maybe she loves him because all his problems give her so much to pray about, and when you're as old as she is , and your body is like enough already, you need some pretty power...
In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking.
In the time it takes to say 'now,' now is already over. It's already 'then.' 'Then' is the opposite of 'now.' So saying 'now' obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.
In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, wit...
Few boys have been as fortunate as I, raised into manhood with only the gentlest of words and blandishments in my ears and the kindest of caresses upon my person, by a mother who sheltered us from eve...
Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up?
Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it subsides from consciousness...
At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten.
As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.
A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
2:58:36 And maybe here’s a bit of insight: My face is and isn’t me. It’s a nice face. It has lots of people in it. My parents, my grandparents, and their grandparents, all the way back through time an...
And I could imagine myself searching for lost time under the tree ...
Можех дори да го попитам дали само депресираните хора се интересуват от философия и дали четенето на философски книги помага.
Дзико Ясутани, монахиня дзэн, сказала мне как-то во сне, что нельзя понять, что значит жить на этой земле, пока не поймешь, что такое временное существо, а понять, что такое временное существо, можно,...