Since I became a refugee, I have been liberated from the prison of formality. So I became much closer to reality. That’s much better.

Of course I know basically nothing of the experience of the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader and political exile, but the idea that we are freed by transplantation is deeply true for me today.

Faintly connects with Benjamin Clementine’s line in Winston Churchill’s Boy, adapted from Luke 4:24,

“Well, they say no man can be a prophet
In his own country, so I left, here I am
Come on embrace me, hold me!
I am your brother!”