"From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there.. What if I came to the end of my life, and realized that I had spent everyday, watching for a man who would never come to me?
What an unbearable sorrow it would be to realize: I never really tasted the things I had eaten, or seen the places I had been; because I thought of nothing but the Chairman, even while my life was drifting away from me.
And yet, if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood, for a performance she would never give."