"This is what I think of you, you will go forth from these walls, but you will live like a monk in the world. You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it - which is what matters most. Well, that is your character."
from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sometimes, the little monk hears with his eyes, sometimes he sees with his ears, but at all times he looks and listens with his heart.
Some stories break the little monk’s heart and scatter it over the ground, and some stories mend his heart and put the pieces back together again.
He writes both kinds of stories.
The little monk loves the Japanese art form Kintsugi, whose name is written in Japanese characters below, and is translated “golden joinery” in English, and which is an old art form where a broken pot is mended with lacquer dusted with powdered gold.
The beauty of the broken pot is in it’s brokenness.
This is the philosophy of the little monk.
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