My name is Mal! I live in Japan. 
"How easy is it for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons.

The human mind, in it's desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes it's opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how it is. You have to be larger than your thought and realize that however you interpret "your life" or someone else's life or behavior, however judge any situation, it is no more than a viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is no more than a bundle of thoughts. But reality is one unified whole, in which all things are interwoven, where nothing exists in and by itself. //Thinking fragments reality -- it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces//.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are."

- Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle.