Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)

by Daniel Quinn

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.”

Ishmael’s eyes closed gently in an indulgent smile. “Belief is not required. Once you know this story, you’ll hear it everywhere in your culture, and you’ll be astonished that the people around you don’t hear it as well but merely take it in.”

Quinn's third eye is OPEN like even if he and I were looking at the same painting and i thought i understood what I was seeing, I wouldn't fully understand until he told me what we were both seeing