The whole wide world is a place of interest and everything in it a subject worthy of study. I am happiest when in movement, either literally or through books, movies, art, encounters and conversations, but I also need a lot of time to just be quiet and digest experiences. PHILOSOPHY "The man who finds his country sweet is only a raw beginner; the man for whom each country is as his own land is already strong; but only the man for whom the whole world is a foreign country is perfect". ~Hugh of St. Victor "Know thyself". ~the Oracle at Delphi "Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do". ~Carl Jung "Life is uncertain... eat dessert first". ~Ernestine Ulmer "The problem with always keeping both feet firmly on the ground is that you can never take your pants off". ~Groucho Marx "Suffering is experience yet to find its meaning". ~Carl Jung "All generalizations are false, including this one". ~Mark Twain "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". ~Shakespeare, Hamlet "The mind is its own place, and in itself / can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven". ~Milton, Paradise Lost