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[at-l] Out of the darkness; into the light.
- Subject: [at-l] Out of the darkness; into the light.
- From: John Newman <NEWMAN@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:19:05 -0500 (EST)
Cindy Ross gave me this quote, as I passed through PA on my way to Katahdin.
If it has meaning for you, great. If not, I hope it soon will.
Oliver Twist
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"You cannot stay on the summit forever;
you must 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"
1960 Pantheon Books. Inc.
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