Let me go is a suppliant unit of words looming with urgency as if it were a dangling, drooping leaf about to fall in summer or a querulous song of a caged bird wishing to spread its wings onto the cerulean sky. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Phenomenology of ‘Let Me Go’)

Let me go,’ when earnestly spoken, punctures a tender hole in the soul with regret and sorrow, in contrast to the perniciously “I hate you” or “I don’t love you anymore” that can inflame a repulsive feeling of anger, denial, and resentment. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Phenomenology of ‘Let Me Go’)

If they can do it, let them do it! If only a handful can do it, forget it! If everybody’s doing it, either you fake it or walk away from it! If no one can’t do it, neither you can do it! But if no one’s doing it, for God’s sake, be creative and inventive, do it! (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Existentialist Homo Technologicus Manifesto)

Failure and success have always both a dramatic turn. But unlike failure, which, most often, timorously withdraws by taking a U-turn, success fearlessly takes a head-on collision with failure upon failures until it clears its path along the way.

Don’t look for glaring comfort on the fluttering leaves, but beyond the ground where the roots anchored and gave strength and power to a sturdy tree.

The essence of gift-giving does not rely on materials things, but on something transcendent, as if it were the last and the only thing that one could willingly give, that gently makes the soul smile.

I wish to be conceived and born again as a man from the sublime womb of a woman, she who gave birth to humanity, and be an offering and fruition of love to another woman, she who benevolently nurtures what it means to love, to be loved, and to be human. (Danny Castillones Sillada, The Indefinable Woman: A Linguistic Thesis)