Student: Can we know good without knowing evil?
Master: Can you know clean without knowing dirty?
Category: Of Grasshoppers
Philosophical discussions between “student” and “master” intended to inspire deep thought.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: How did I ever come to have so many people depend upon me? All I ever wanted to do was hide in the woods.
Master: Can’t see the forest for all the people’s needs?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Not my problem.
Master: Wanna bet?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I lost focus.
Master: It is impossible to have focus with your eyes closed.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Are there problems I cannot solve?
Master: There are problems you alone cannot solve.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Today shall require miracles!
Master: Take what you get.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I want to do
Master: You must do
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Am I a victim of my circumstances?
Master: You are a victim of your choices.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: How can I bring peace and harmony to the world when I cannot bring it upon my own house?
Master: House? What of self?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: When did I die?
Master: Do tears drop from a lifeless man’s nose?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I have failed them.
Master: Will you continue to do so?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Today I struggle to not feel overwhelmed.
Master: Struggle is often a source of anxiety.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: How come I can’t ever get a break?
Master: I thought you were always broke.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Where does the healing begin?
Master: It’d be cliché to say from within; the healing must be without.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I don’t want conflict.
Master: No change without conflict.
