“One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.”
― The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
― The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
“A fact about the world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one knows anything about being dead.”
― Lost & Found
― Lost & Found
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
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“I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.”
― The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
― The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
“loss” is a notion. No more than a thought. Which one forms or one doesn’t. With words. Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind.”
― Ghana Must Go
― Ghana Must Go
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