Ecru King

l'avoir elle, c'est avoir les étoiles

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”

“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. […] Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.”

“In the mornings, on the mountain with its short grass ruffled with meadow saffron, its icy streams, the sun and shade, my body accepts and then refuses. The concentrated effort of walking uphill, the air burning my lungs like a red-hot iron or cutting into them like a sharpened razor, the concentration of all my energy in an effort to go beyond myself and conquer the slope, is like a self-knowledge which one gains through the body. The body, a true path to culture, teaches us where our limits lie.”