“An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.”
― The Forgetting Room
― The Forgetting Room
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“It begins to rain softly, raising goose-pimples on the pond’s skin.”
― The Garden of Evening Mists
― The Garden of Evening Mists
“Move fluidly by earth of water and stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts. . . Savour the path and enjoy the sun.”
― The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated
― The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated
“As I understand it, civilization needs something approaching a shared view of reality in order to function. But that norm is inevitably narrow and blinkered. None of us really see, hear, and experience exactly the same thing as our neighbors; we merely agree on a colluded approximation, hoping that if we cling together we won’t get too disoriented. But our peripheral vision functions outside the agreed-upon norm and observes not just parts of but all of our sensory experiences. By bringing this “outside stuff” into focus,”
― The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
― The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity
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