Ji Gong Quotes

Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

The newspapers and radio were full of the campaign to “Destroy the Four Olds.” The campaign had been expanded to eliminate personal possessions. “If we do not completely eliminate the roots, the plant will grow back,” we heard. “We must eradicate these relics of the past.… We must not allow the reactionary forces to hoard their treasures.…” And every day we heard the drums and gongs that meant the Red Guards were ransacking the houses of class enemies to find and confiscate their hoarded possessions.

Pokušala sam potisnuti sve osjećaje iz djetinjstva, koji su se najednom ustalasali u meni. Taj strogi glas! Nije imalo nikakvog smisla da ostanem. Podsjetila sam se da joj je rođendan, ali ni rođendan nije bio dovoljan da sruši zidine podignute našim prošlostima. Za to će trebati mnogo više vremena nego što imamo.

Listen, my boy. To love is to know how to love.