Travelers :: Sangha

We all have a desire to "report on the temperment of nations and their ways of life,...to rub our minds and polish them by contact with others. Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgement of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgements, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wiesly on our own, and to teach our judgement to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness."

Michel de Montaigne in his Essais.