Quotes

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

René Daumal

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light & no light without shadow.”

Haruki Murakami

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”

Brother David Steindl-Rast

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Richard Bach

“One hand on the beauty of the world, one hand on the suffering of all beings & two feet firmly grounded in the task of the present moment."

from the Cathedral of Autun