Ella Iris

“Dans cette vallée, rien n'avançait ni ne reculait, tout tournait en rond, suivant le motif de l'éternel retour, ou de l'éternelle réécriture. Et ce mouvement était tout sauf stérile.”
― Paolo Cognetti, Senza mai arrivare in cima: Viaggio in Himalaya

“Nous nous maintenions désormais au-dessus des 4500 mètres, marchant à travers un paysage auquel je ne faisais plus attention: lisse, aride, sableux, le même depuis des jours. Le regard de celui qui traverse le désert est strictement tourné vers l'intérieur.”
― Paolo Cognetti

“In every truth the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Sansara and Nirvana, into illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Sansara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it.”
― Karan Bajaj, The Yoga of Max's Discontent