GhostlyAspect

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.”
― Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents