"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 become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow."
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Thursday, November 5, 2009
entry #1
I began my other blog, the one from this past summer in Africa, specifically for recording that particular experience and mostly for my friends and family back home. I recently started posting on that site again but then Uganda Village Project asked my permission to link it to their page so I decided to forget about the personal posts there and start another blog for that purpose. Here is entry #1. Nothing exciting because I'm too tired to write at the moment but I did want to share one of my favorite quotes:
"...to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."
- C.S. Lewis
[Till We Have Faces]
"...to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."
- C.S. Lewis
[Till We Have Faces]
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