Brain Food #583
Our mountains never run out
Thoughts of the day
As we enter another week, with what may seem like mountains to conquer, remember it does not end when one reaches the top. Once you are there, after all, you will be able to see all the other mountains that await you more clearly. There are many summits to climb, many falls that await. Our mountains never run out.
This may seem like a discouraging thought. However, true living, according to Robert Macfarlane, author of Mountains of the Mind, is found in the ongoing exhilaration of climbing, and the risks that are associated with it:
“As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died.”
Have a great week ahead.
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