What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.
He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground.
Trump is very plugged in. He's very connected.
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.
The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.
I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.
I just know how lucky I am.
We cannot leave the trap until we know we are in it.
Although we are well aware that we know much that earlier generations did not, we are much less conscious of what they knew that we do not.
