Experiential Metaphors
George W. Burns
Taylor & Francis eBooks October 24, 2018 DOI: 10.4324/9781315803586-9 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Describes a climber's personal experience of meditation and solitude in mountain peaks as producing inner balance and feelings of self-understanding, belonging to the world, and being alone with the cosmos. |
Abstract
Here in the peace and solitude of the mountain peaks, here where meditation leads me into a state of inner balance as I climb, I too am overcome with feelings of self-understanding, of belonging to the world, and of being alone with the cosmos.— Reinhold Messner, 1980