Dawn

“We often think that the best way to become happy is to focus more on ourselves, to take better care of ourselves and put our attention on the things that make us happy. While this is important, I’ve found that it often doesn’t work.
There’s a strange kind of paradox in happiness. The more we seek it out for ourselves, the harder it often is to find.”
― 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

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face...”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“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