Ruth Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being (2013)

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Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it's the other way around.

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Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

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I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

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That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.

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Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

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What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

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Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

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Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

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But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

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