Yvon Chouinard Quotes
The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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There is a certain rapport, a sensitivity - I don't know how to say it - that forms a bridge between this strange machine and the cosmic spiritual force. It is not the machine, itself, you understand, that reaches out and taps the spiritual force. It is the living creature's mind, aided by the mechanism, that brings the force to us.
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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
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The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
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We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
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Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?Jim 'The Waco Kid': Oh you know, play chess...screw.Sheriff Bart: Well let's play chess!
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The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
