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- A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see…
- Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you…
- You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules…
- The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal.…
- "When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's…
- The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
- The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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