I've already started visiting a psychiatric ward 10 miles from where I live, dressed in my monk clothes. I've given Hindu beads to four patients, and I got a Christian pastor to make regular visits to one patient (and he wanted to baptise him in a bath on the ward). I sent letters yesterday to David Blaine and Bear Grylls asking if they'd come in with me.

All I need to do is process all the emotion from my past (loss, shame, guilt, condemnation), and move forward. The 10 days of silence I'll do next month will help that along.

I think the bottom line on my exgirlfriend is that she has sunk, and I must float.