6 Quotes by Ben Hewitt

My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

Of all the things I have learned since becoming a parent(and sometimes, it feels as if this might be everything I've learned), perhaps the hardest to accept is that it is selfish and possibly even dangerous to desire particular outcomes for our children.

We are all interconnected and interdependent, and because of this, we are all only as rich as we enrich those around us. I.

What if the point were not to know as much as possible but to feel as much as possible?

I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real.

Many parents aren’t all that accustomed to being patient and present for their kids anymore, if only because they’re simply not given the opportunity to be patient and present. Jobs get in the way. School gets in the way. After-school activities get in the way. As I have learned – as I am still learning – patience and presence are muscles that must be developed and exercised regularly.