Rene Daumal Quotes

In The Evenings In Bed, With The Light Out, I Tried To Picture Death, The "most Nothing Of All." In Imagination I Suppressed All The Circumstances Of My Life And I Felt Gripped In Ever Tighter Circles Of Panic. There Was No Longer Any "I." What Is It After All, "I"? ...Then One Night, A Marvelous Idea Came To Me: Instead Of Just Submitting To This Panic, I Would Try To Observe It, To See Where It Is, What It Is. I Perceived Then That It Was
connected To A Contraction In My Stomach, A Little Under My Ribs, And Also In My Throat...I Forced Myself To Unclench, To Relax My Stomach. The Panic Disappeared ... When I Tried Again To Think About Death, Instead Of Being Gripped By The Claws Of Panic I Was Filled By An Entirely New Feeling, Whose Name I Did Not Know, Something Between Mystery And Hope."
-Mount Analogue, Rene Daumal

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