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.

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

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

Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.

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.

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.