Philosophy & Life

Chapter II.

"Despite all the pain, we were forced to let go of people over the years, realizing they couldn’t meet us at our depth—only to recognize now that, years ago, we were once let go by someone we couldn’t meet at their depth.

That anonymous, unresolved ‘すきだ’ message—she told me it looked like your writing. That word ‘bright’ in your nickname. That courage from you when you sat next to the kid who then coldly stood up and walked away just because someone called their name. That meeting of eyes when you finished writing down the lecture notes from the blackboard and returned to your seat. That habit of you rolling up your pants by two folds—one I still instinctively keep. That emphasis on inner beauty you always carried even with your mere presence. That last conversation when she said we were made for each other—did she ever tell you, too? That final memory of a subtle, disappointed sigh from you—when you heard that the 15-year-old kid had bought a suit for the graduation photo—has stayed with me and saved me to this day.

All these years, everywhere I looked, I was just trying to find another soul who might resemble your spirit.

本当にありがとうございました。

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart."

— 2025.5.23 & 2016.6.1

"I saw that otherworldly tenderness in your silence, rationality, actions, and beliefs. Though you never shed a single tear in front of us, I always knew you felt more deeply than any of us."

— 2025

"One cannot leave a mark with less than a hundred years of limited consciousness in a universe infinitely greater than the comprehensible legacy of the human mind. The mark is already there before every living being is born. The true mark is always present, yet designed to perish. The illusion of a mark—a fundamentally flawed desire born of limited awareness, proven by its recognizable progression from its owner(As we go through life, we experience the evolution of our awareness and come to recognize our lack of awareness in the past)—is a rigid survival mechanism: unnecessary and inevitably finite."

— 2025

"They carry a whole history of lessons, pain, and transformative experiences—yet they acknowledge that those who truly see won't require intentional sharing, and those who don't will never see, even with complete factual and emotional transparency from the narrator."

— 2025

"We wrote stories so our hearts would have a sacred place to rest—with love, with magic, with that one person."

— 2025

"The most spiritual feeling of love is perhaps the only human experience in this universe that is free from comparison—neither rooted in knowledge nor achievement, simply a purest form of being. It is two quietly looking, wanting nothing more, finally whole, and possessing the utter courage to close their eyes together for eternity."

— 2025

"Unawareness of one’s potential, feelings, and transformation is the essential condition for a journey guided by destiny."

— 2025

"It’s always been a good sign when one, once in a while, questions whether they’re living up to the thoughts formed during different intensified periods of consciousness."

— 2025

"Nothing. Truth is handled by the universe—not by us. It is there whether we share it or not, whether people live it or not. It’s there. We may believe we've uncovered it, but it has always been there, unmoved. It’s always, forever there—until the end of all things.

And yet, somehow, it is there as if it were never there at all."

— 2025

"If many people in this world are deprived of their social instincts, subjected to significant suffering, and stripped of everything that matters to them—regardless of gender—they will all become monsters, succumbing to their most basic animal instincts.

Those who do not are the rare saints for whom life has always been bigger than themselves, than ideas, than reaction. They are the universe, they are the loneliness, and they are the suffering itself.

And they are the ones who would rather end their own life than commit an act of unholiness."

— 2025

"We all pay a price for clinging to what we have with the wrong intention."

— 2025

"How many times you pray that everyone could just sincerely wish the best for others."

— 2025

"What’s sometimes terrifying is that you can almost always find a reason to legitimize a thought, no matter how absurd it might appear—even to a well-suffered mind. "

— 2025

"Most pain in love comes from a mismatch of consciousness, existential empathy and self-awareness."

— 2025

"With all of these emotions, we have finally learned we are not strong enough, and we were never strong enough, but so aren’t this life."

— 2025

"It’s such a painful and relieving realization, to know that depth only exists in comparison."

— 2025

"When we spend our entire life to find that one kindred spirit, only to realize we have already met that person at the very beginning of our life."

— 2025

"We all try to find a place to belong, only to realize loneliness is inevitable wherever we go. So we learned to cultivate a garden wherever we stood—for it is the only way to peace."

— 2025

"Talking to people to fulfill a psychological need is not difficult. What makes it hard is talking to people while feeling compelled to prioritize their emotional well-being above all else throughout the entire conversation."

— 2025

"True wisdom and maturity often lie in concealment—of everything, of sacred knowing—but always for the good, never for oneself, always for others."

— 2025