“They needed to share one secret after another with a beautiful woman, to peel away layer after layer, mask after mask, and still find themselves worshiped.”
“Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.”
“A mask, no matter how beautiful, is still a mask”
“The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.”
“He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.”
“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”