Usually I try to make my mind as blank as possible. It’s not easy to do. It’s very hard. You sort of picture yourself in a movie theatre. And the minute an image comes on the screen, you wipe it off, so it’s blank. It’s very difficult to do. It’s sort of what’s supposedly achieved with the mantra.
“We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them — to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That’s very important. If you don’t forgive yourself you’ll never be able to forgive anybody else and you’ll go on committing the same crimes forever.”
James Baldwin | Another Country