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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Sep 25, 2009 - 10:56am PT
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Beautiful! Gonna have to start reading Muir...
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rmuir
Social climber
the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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"Live it up, fill your cup, drown your sorrow, and sow your wild oats while ye may, for the toothless old tykes of tomorrow, were the tigers of yesterday"
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Our lives and do wop music.
Action and Reflection.
Do and Be
Plan and Move
Be and Do
The miracle goes on
The song goes on
Do Be Do Be Do
p.s. don't be a bebe go out and get in the do do.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Always a Favorite....but never really understood til recently. Peace All and Love.
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to keep silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the hearts of men: yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, 11
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Have you ever watched a small white cloud dissolve into a background of Blue Space?
My search is for the kind of consciousness which could do just that to the causes of world friction.
Cedric Wright, Words of the Earth.
Words of wisdom? or wistfulness, not sure, but I like it.
There is more such as this in the book, along with some sublime photos, go find it, it's out of print.
Great stuff here, good bump t*r!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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its better to don a cloak of mystery
than to be bathed in false light.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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You think that because you understand "one", you must therefore understand "two", because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and".
Sufi teaching story
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Papillon Rendre
climber
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties”
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Bedrock by Gary Snyder
Snowmelt pond warm granite
we make camp,
no thought of finding more.
and nap
and leave our minds to the wind.
on the bedrock, gently tilting,
sky and stone,
teach me to be tender.
the touch that nearly misses-
brush of glances-
tiny steps-
that finally cover worlds
of hard terrain.
cloud wisps and mists
gathered into slate blue
bolts of summer rain.
tea together in the purple starry eve;
new moon soon to set,
why does it take so
long to learn to
love,
we laugh
and grieve.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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René Daumal from 'Mount Analogue':
"Its summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible."
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"One finds here, very rarely in the low lying areas, more frequently as one goes farther up, a clear and extremely hard stone that is spherical and varies in size—a kind of crystal, but a curved crystal, something extraordinary and unknown on the rest of the planet. Among the French of Port-des-Singes, it is called peradam. Ivan Lapse remains puzzled by the formation and root meaning of this word. It may mean, according to him, “harder than diamond,” and it is; or “father of the diamond,” and they say that the diamond is in fact the product of the degeneration of the peradam by a sort of quartering of the circle or, more precisely, cubing of the sphere. Or again, the word may mean “Adam’s stone,” having some secret and profound connection to the original nature of man. The clarity of this stone is so great and its index of refraction so close to that of air that, despite the crystal’s great density, the unaccustomed eye hardly perceives it. But to anyone who seeks it with sincere desire and true need, it reveals itself by its sudden sparkle, like that of dewdrops. The peradam is the only substance, the only material object whose value is recognized by the guides of Mount Analogue. Therefore, it is the standard of all currency, as gold is for us."
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Oh and a couple I made up while in my teen years:
"I would rather live from day to day...
Than from time to time."
(Prompted ^ by reading the words:
"At either end of the social spectrum, there lies a leisure class")
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"For all beings, life is a vicious cycle...
The effort comes in manifesting positive spirals."
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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never let the truth get in the way of a good story:
it surprises me to learn that my utterings fall on befuddled ears.
i mean, occasionally, admittedly i slip thru the cracks in reality and explore the coastline of reason.
where i dangle my toes over the abyss that cradles the mystery, hurling insults at god and awaiting an echo.
god's responses i then attempt to pocket in the solution voids in my mind, and bring them back to the supertopo blanket.
these reportings are most likely the ones ya kant understand.
as godspeak is like speaking-in-forked-tonges.
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
-Rumi
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