Monday, June 8, 2009

Travel and Humility

Indian temple / © I.A. Daglis
India was my first encounter with otherness, the discovery of a new world. It was at the same time a great lesson in humility. Yes, the world teaches humility. I returned from this journey embarrassed by my own ignorance, at how ill read I was.

Ryszard Kapuscinski [Travels with Herodotus, 2004]

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