My Grandfather’s home-teacher, Steve Frisbee, spoke at his funeral in November and shared the following quotation from a French mountaineer as part of his remarks:
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. —Rene Daumal, Mount Analogue
This got me thinking in all kinds of ways. I spoke about some of my thoughts on this topic in church on Sunday, December 27, 2009. Happy to discuss offline or in person online. Happy New Year!
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