Travelers and locals may see the same place differently
“A foreigner tends to see paradise where a native sees purgatory, insofar as a foreigner is in a privileged position and has more appreciative eyes, undimmed by familiarity.”
–Pico Iyer, from a Powells.com interview, 2000
August 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
“Something in us does not believe we can survive fundamental changes in personality structure or life circumstances, and so crises in life is shadowed by death. Then when we survive the crisis we realize that change may mean metamorphosis rather than death. The ego dies and a stronger self is born. Then it may come to us that death is only a gateway to wider life, the final trip beyond the prison of the ego.”
—Sam Keen, psychologist,on change in individuals.