Dawn

“Every religion is eventually corrupted by its fallible clergy and the slow, inevitable drift toward hollow ritual and empty ceremony…
That’s why religion needs refreshing every millennium or so.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“Either there is a meaning to the time we spend alive on this physical plane or the only meaning in this universe of stuff and energy is the meaning we create for ourselves.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“I realized that education was everything...If you want to change the world, education is the key...it is only through education that real change can be effected.
Also, education isn’t “charity.”...Charity implies giving out something to people who are less fortunate. It implies “we have” and “you don’t have.” There’s a sense of pity attached to doling out to the poor. Education empowers. It uplifts...Charity makes people dependent. Education makes them independent.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“Many of us come to a time in our lives when the beliefs we grew up with collide with the reality of the world we find ourselves living in.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy