“Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.”

“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.”

“If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.”

“Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.”

“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.”

“It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.”

“This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.”