“If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.”
“Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.”
“We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.”
“We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.”
“We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.”
“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”