“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?”

“Do you want love, or do you want control?”

“When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.”

“You just do it, then if you die, you die.”

“And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard.”

“The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.”

“Love, Love. Sweet and glorious love.”