Author Archives: christos kyliakoudis

Wisdom of the mountains

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There are no words when reaching the top.
There are no words while climbing towards your goal.
There are no words when you stop, turn your body, focusing, looking and experiencing a glorious sunset.
There are no words when you are hungry and eat a simple bread.
There are no words when you are thirsty and drinking the humble water.
There are no words when hugging your fellow traveller.
There are no words when changing  clothes after sweating.
There are no words when you are lost and you have to decide, you then have to trust your instinct. It is the only thing you’ve got.
Even the steepest side becomes easy when we create a zigzag path.

Believe that the top is the only purpose you then miss the journey.The real purpose of climbing is just to climb.
Believe that the journey is the only purpose and you then miss the top.The real purpose of climbing is to reach the top.

There are endless routes to the Top. Our route is only one of them, not “The One”.
Mountain is not good or bad, tall or short, green or brown. Like life they are what they are. New every second.
There are no words ,when feeling the mountain.
There are no words, when walking in the mountain.
There are no words……

Light dark

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Yesterday’s certainties, today’s uncertainties.
Yesterday’s uncertainties, today’s certainties.
light turned to dark,
dark turned to light,
Light defines dark,
dark defines light.
Up defines down,
down defines up.
if black is black because there is white
and if white is white because there is black
then black is not black and white is not white.
There is the system of black – white
the play of white – black,
the drama of black – white.
Now you see,
now you don’t see,
now you live,
now you don’t live,
now you dream,
now you don’t dream.
So then what are you?
Another play?
Another dance?
Another entity, another being, another existence?
Part of the whole
or the whole expressed in a part?
Does it matter?
Today no tomorrow yes.
let our play continue in the eternal here and now !
Where all the questions,all the answers are dancing so beautifully.

Alan Watts – Quotes about Ego

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“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”

“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.”

“We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.”

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”