Brian Cern

“What I was worried about was being defined as someone who didn’t have the courage or gumption or intelligence or whatever was necessary to get out of spending half his waking hours on a task and at a place that he didn’t enjoy or find fulfilling. I didn’t care if I was or wasn’t a writer. I was worried I was someone who let life just sort of happen to them.”
― Patrick Hutchison, Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

“To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;—and thus (all) get to be good. To those who are sincere (with me), I am sincere; and to those who are not sincere (with me), I am also sincere;—and thus (all) get to be sincere.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There’s a hopelessness that comes with reaching the peak of anything because once you’re at the top, there’s nowhere else to go. All you’re left with is the realization that the promise of reaching someplace higher was always the best part of climbing in the first place.”
― Patrick Hutchison, Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

“There are a thousand meanings in every view, if only we open ourselves to see the scripture of the landscape.”
― Ming-Dao Deng, 365 Tao: Daily Meditations