It is therefore a source of great virtue for the practiced mind to learn, but by bit, first to change about invisible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be able to leave them behind all together. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect for whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his.
-Hugo of St.Victor (12 th century monk from Saxony) quoted from Edward Said's "Reflections on Exile."
-Hugo of St.Victor (12 th century monk from Saxony) quoted from Edward Said's "Reflections on Exile."
