Vessel Quotes

“I found Confucianism particularly arresting, and the ideas and ideals it espoused of great merit, the way it viewed fairness and respect as humanitarian values, untethered from the divine and the holy. Justice, knowledge and integrity pursued, not because God demanded them, but because they held intrinsic worldly value for the individual, family and society alike.”
― John Bowen, Vessel

“found Confucianism particularly arresting, and the ideas and ideals it espoused of great merit, the way it viewed fairness and respect as humanitarian values, untethered from the divine and the holy. Justice, knowledge and integrity pursued, not because God demanded them, but because they held intrinsic worldly value for the individual, family and society alike.”
― John Bowen, Vessel

“The past, the future? In the end, what good were they really? One’s forever slipped your grasp; the other’s less than a promise. The present, though? The present is everything. It’s where choice lives. It’s where you do your living, right here, right now.”
― John Bowen, Vessel

“Change is ceaseless, relentless, and you must be supple enough to accommodate it in all its guises, because if you cannot, it will destroy you. Your existence will become a cycle of losses; a life spent mourning moments which are inevitably fleeting. Follow this course for too long and you risk becoming divorced from the world, a man out of time. I have learnt to welcome change, find comfort in progress.”
― John Bowen, Vessel

“The memories our minds store are fragile, prone to lapses and inaccuracies. Dates, names, faces and places all may fade or be forgotten entirely as the years fall behind us, but the memories we store in our hearts…? These are surprisingly tenacious.”
― John Bowen, Vessel