When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

And that might just be the root of the problem: we’re all afraid of each other.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.