amen.

"You listen to your parents because they have known this world longer than you. But do you think that just by being here a long time anybody knows anything? Do you think time gives understanding? Understanding is not temporal, it is not more experience. It is not the quantity of experience that makes you wise, it is the quality. A single experience can give you more wisdom if you bring the quality of awareness to it. A man may have made love to many women, thousands of women, thousands of time. Do you think he knows what love is? There is quantity, but has he known love? One single love can give you wisdom if you bring quality to it. That quality is awareness. If you make love to a single woman for a single time, with your total being, fully alert, you have come to know what love is. Wisdom is something that happens when you bring awareness to any experience. The meeting of awareness and experience is wisdom." (osho)

and that folks is what i am continuously striving for here in colombia, here in what is viewed as my "year off" by many on the outside, here in life.