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“Nous nous maintenions désormais au-dessus des 4500 mètres, marchant à travers un paysage auquel je ne faisais plus attention: lisse, aride, sableux, le même depuis des jours. Le regard de celui qui traverse le désert est strictement tourné vers l'intérieur.”
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“Slowly, like moisture entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha's soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, sent it to sleep. But on the other hand his senses became more awakened, they learned a great deal, experienced a great deal.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Je pensai que l'Himalaya, comme Sete, se rebellait contre notre manie de vouloir tout mesurer. Je me rendis compte que déjà dans l'idée de gagner et de perdre, il y avait une conception économique typiquement occidentale de la montagne, au sens où l'altitude et la distance sont les capitaux que nous accumulons à la sueur de notre front, et il n'y a rien de plus agaçant que de gaspiller les efforts investis.”
― Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
― Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya
“In every truth the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Sansara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
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