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There is nothing more vital and meaningful than living out of the instinctual basis of one's soul. At the same time, listening to the voice of nature in distinction to the conventional voice of what one ought to do, or what is usually done, or what is merely reasonable, takes us off the well traveled cow trails were, venturing into untrodden territory, we might fall off a cliff or get lost.

When I am driving my truck off-road, I am always very happy if there are tire tracks in the ground that I can follow; others have been there before me and probably have found a way through. Nevertheless, some of us have an impulse to go off the collective track, both literally and symbolically, as if following some wild voice.

Thomas Elsner