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

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

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

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.

Isn't a person who can live on nothing much stronger? I try to nurture that transformation in myself.

The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.