No amount of building bridges out will spare you the work of building a bridge in.
From The Soul Without the Story, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch spent the whole afternoon running the fence line, chattering at the gray cat, at the mail truck, at a jay who wanted nothing from him. He came back to the maple hungry and said, with some pride, that he had talked to everyone on the block. Then he sat with his tail going and did not say anything else for an hour. I used to think the cure for a bad week was more company, and I collected it the way some birds collect shiny things, and I was poorer at the end of every one of those weeks than I started. No amount of building bridges out will spare you the work of building a bridge in. I do not know what that work looks like for a squirrel, or whether sitting still in a fork of a tree counts as the whole of it.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- As there is one sun, there is one river that courses all our veins.
- The deepest root finds the purest water.
- The wind moves the trees, but what moves the wind?
- When you know you are going home, you look for a road that leads home.
- Nothing is invisible until someone looks and does not see.
- We do not stand on the surface of the earth, but on roots that go much deeper.