Alex Ngeno > Quotes

“We inherit more than land and language; we inherit ways of seeing the world.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“We learned how to make the world end before we learned how to live in it.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Fire

“Silence is where the world returns to its true size.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“Perhaps the light we carry does not disappear. It learns another way of burning.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Fire

“The clocks of our lives do not tick outward but inward.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“Wonder does not arrive with spectacle; it waits in the ordinary, asking only that we pay attention.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“What is fragile survives only when carried.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Fire

“Wonder opens the door. What remains is what we choose to carry.
Prologue”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“Silence is not something we enter; it is something we remember.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder

“A guest should not enter a home and remain socially invisible. Their presence changes the rhythm of the household.”
― Alex Ngeno, The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Fire