“In somber mood, I re-called my whole life up to this day, and my head spun with the buzzing of a hundred and one ouroboristic worms. I remembered the drinking parties that made us thirsty and the thirst that made… — René Daumal Copy Share Image
“Now, in my readings and in my travels I have heard, like you, about men of a superior type, possessing the keys to all our mysteries. Somehow I could not regard this as a simple allegory, this idea of an invisible humanity within visible humanity. Experience has proven, I told myself, that a man can reach truth neither directly nor… — René Daumal Copy Share
“I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give, In trying to give, you see that you have nothing, Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself, Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing, Seeing that… — Rene Daumal Copy Share
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we… — Rene Daumal Copy Share
Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here,… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks. — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
