Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.

I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.