"To be a real traveler you must be willing to take yourself out of the center of your universe. You must believe totally in the lives of the people and the places where you find yourself, even if it undermines your faith in the life you left behind. You need to share with them. Participate with them. Sit at their tables, go to their streets. Struggle with their language. Tell them stories of your life and hear the stories of theirs. Watch how they love eachother, how they fight eachother. See what they value and what they fear. Fill the spaces they keep in their lives. Become part of the fabric of their every day lives and you will get a sense of what it means to live in their world. Give yourself over to them- embrace rather than judge- and you will find that the beauty in their lives and their world will become part of yours. When you move on you will have grown. You will realize that the possibilities of life are endless and that beneath our differences we all share the dream of loving and being loved, of having a life with more joy than sorrow." - Kent Heuburn, via nicole
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