Conrad Anker quotes

Conrad Anker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.”
-- Conrad Anker

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“Climbers have no sense of smell.”
-- Conrad Anker

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“There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.”
-- Conrad Anker

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“It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.”
“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”
“You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.”
“Maybe thatâ€™s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain”
“We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.”
“I found I have to stay painting.”
“More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.”
“Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.”

Source : Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439
“Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow.”
“When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.”

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