Maurice Herzog Quotes

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

Going to the mountains is going home.

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

I like skiing, among other things, because I have moments when I am alone in the mountains. That's fantastic, when there's nobody around you. You see miles around you, and the sun is almost down .

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into it so deeply, and so totally that suddenly the doing drops, and you alone are left, just existing.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

To be here is immense.

We do not become. We simply are.

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.