檳榔嶼

- The proper radical is one who tries to get to the root of things, not to be distracted by superficials, to see the woods for the trees. Anyone who thinks deeply will be one.
  - Yet in our North American culture these words have come to have opposite meanings, as if a radical were necessarily some left-wing, bomb-throwing anarchist and a fundamentalist automatically some right-wing primitive thinker.
- The strange geographical isolation and gragmentation of the society of that building was reflected in a kind of emotional isolation and fragmentation within my own family.
- Anxiety and depression are acceptable feelings.
- People don't like to hear bad news about themselves, which is why prophets are so often stoned or otherwise scapegoated.
- Genuine communities vary extremely in their intensity.
- Simply seek happiness, and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness, and you will likely be happy much of the time.
- Seeking joy in and of itself will not bring it to you. Do the work of creating community, and you will obtain it - although never exactly according to your schedule.
- I was trained in the precepts of rugged individualism. Anxiety, depression, and helplessness were feelings that were not supposed to be expressed.
- In the name of "sensitivity", confrontation was more encouraged than love.