Even if someone loves us sincerely, if we don’t know how to be our own soulmate, we won’t be able to believe in the love that person is offering because we ourselves don’t know what love is.

SISTER DANG NGHIEM, MD (1968 CE-), SISTER DANG NGHIEM, MD, ("Sister D") was born in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. Living in various foster homes, she learned English and went on to earn a medical degree from the University of California - San Francisco She quit her practice as a doctor to travel to Plum Village monastery in France founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, where she was ordained a nun in 2000.