Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
knowing space race
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.
study much-love
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
believe sin homosexuality
There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
people needs belief
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.
motivation humility writing
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.
loss despair anticipation
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
right-time feels ifs
We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
suicide loneliness people
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
voice ironic secret
It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
oppression
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
language intimacy absence
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
reality utah church
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
depression real drawing
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
exercise work-out pounds
Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.