Witkiewicz, Jesieniowiska, 1894
The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done
bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does.
The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target
takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is
with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my
accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger
truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell
an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, a forest lodge man, it
is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that
came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.
Joseph Brochak
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