43 km away from Santiago, there is this “wall of wisdom” and a table with souvenir pebbles you can take for a small donation.

I copied the “wall of wisdom”, as food for thought for later. Here is what it says:

There is fast food, but there is no fast wisdom. We can only understand new ideas when we are ready for them.

Ignorance and arrogance often go together. We tend to hide our ignorance with arrogance.

Humility enables us to realize that when an idea seems to make no sense, we may just not yet understand it.

We regard ourselves at the head of creation, but pollute it and are close to destroying it.

When we reflect upon evolution we see that a society that doesn’t live in harmony – like ours – is bound to destroy itself.

Harmony on earth is not utopía.

What is utopia is the idea that many people have of ‘paradise’.

Harmony is not doing to others what is hateful to yourself. Harmony is doing to others what you would like them to do to you.

Living in harmony with others and living in harmony with the environment are interrelated.

To establish harmony we have to discover why we have conflicts with other people and with the environment.

History repeats itself when we do not learn everything there is to learn from our experiences.

The ultimate cause of our conflicts is a bad understanding of ourselves, of the world we live in, and of the interaction between them.

A bad understanding of reality divides people. A good understanding of reality brings people together.

Our understanding of reality comes from our perception of reality.

There is only one reality, but different people perceive it differently.

A good perception of reality enables us to see all the causes and consequences of our behaviour.

What alters our perception of reality? What makes us focus so much on certain aspects that we ignore others?

A healthy body and mind require a healthy diet. Drugs are like medicine. Instead of taking them, we should ask what makes us sick.