Rows of brass butter lamps burning with small yellow flames in a dark temple interior.

Butter lamps burning at a Buddhist temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

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I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness.
Reinhold Messner
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