Whenever you trace the
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. Eric Hoffer
Ascent
There is no sudden
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The ascent to greatness,
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind. Edward Gibbon
For those of us
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome … Read more
Your legs feel like
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It’s a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You’re headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. … Read more
The delights of this
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear. Franz Kafka
There are and can
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is … Read more
The descent into matter
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. Dion Fortune
Despair is good. Despair
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. Dean Koontz
As I express my
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center. David Steindl-Rast