Wise Words on Wednesday: The Inexhaustible Well

I was working in Seattle this last week and while wandering around on Sunday I realized I was close to burial place of Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon Lee. I was a huge fan growing up and so I decided to go and pay my respects.

It was a rather odd experience. While I was at their graves praying for about fifteen minutes there was a steady stream of people coming to have their pictures taken with the headstones! Bizarre.

Anyway, there was a quotation on Brandon Lee’s tombstone which I found rather challenging and a good candidate for Wise Words on Wednesday this week…

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really… How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…

– The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles