It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can”-

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

Instead of forever climbing the mountain of success, we need to descend into the valley of our true selves to weed out false beliefs.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

You don’t climb the second mountain the way you climb the first mountain. You conquer your first mountain. You identify the summit, and you claw your way toward it. You are conquered by your second mountain. You surrender to some summons, and you do everything necessary to answer the call and address the problem or injustice that is in front of you. On the first mountain you tend to be ambitious, strategic, and independent. On the second mountain you tend to be relational, intimate, and relentless.

W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

One must climb the mountain so that freedom can be found at the top. But the self is already an illusion, and that truth can be glimpsed directly, at the mountain’s base or anywhere else along the path.