There is no experience but your own

“There is no experience but your own. Let go the crutch of living through someone else’s experience, of being guided and led. You are your own expert. The only travels I’m an expert on are my own, which may have little to do with yours. I can’t be your expert, only your advisor; and I advise you to go out and become your own expert.”
–Ed Buryn, Vagabonding in the USA (1980)