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The Grown-Ups Are Bewildered
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Where ritual is absent, the young are restless or violent, there are no real elders, and the grown-ups are bewildered. The future is dim.
~ From Chip Conley
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A five-year-old boy who lost his mother in the crowd at a fair approached a police officer and asked him:
“Sir, have you seen a lady walking without a child like me? “
~ Gabriel García Márquez
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The older I get, the more I realize that childhood and old age not only meet, but they are the two deepest states in which we are allowed to live. The true essence of an individual is revealed in them, before or after the efforts, aspirations, ambitions of life.
The eyes of the child and those of the old man look with calm candor of those who have not yet entered the masquerade dance or have already left it. And the whole interval seems like a void of turmoil, an empty commotion, a useless chaos for which we wonder why we had to go through.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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Money and power are inventions of distrust.
~ Hermann Hesse
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