“And in this fashion learns to know oneself,”

The world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population.

It is not the contact with an essentially foreign population that corrupts the inhabitants of the great foreign resorts.

All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists.

Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious.

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls.

Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection