The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.