A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
“It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.”
“I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.”