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

Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

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.

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

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

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