Quotes from Arno Ilgner

Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Success and failure do not exist in the present, only effort and action exist.

4. There are two types of fear: survival and illusory. The former is healthy and helpful while the latter is not. It is important to be able to distinguish between the two fears.

To expand your comfort zone you need to take your body into the uncomfortable zone, experience it, and when it's over, allow your mind to process the experience.

Don Juan tells Castaneda that if you live by the Ego, then you can count on being offended or defensive for the rest of your life.

Dan Millman councils us that "every act is a deliberate act of will. Even when tying your shoes—tie them impeccably.

Do you love to challenge and test yourself on a difficult climb, or do you simply love the feeling of accomplishment or the praise from your peers once the climb is over?

Helpful hints: Be aware. All you can control is your attention. Question your status quo. Modify, don't validate. Learning is converting stress into comfort. Incorporate falling practice into every climbing day. Find little ways to engage. BERP often! When you rest, rest; when you climb, climb. Practice is an end in itself. Enjoy the journey.

Second, the work is a process, and that process lasts a lifetime. Every time you gain a new plateau, a massif of unrealized potential soars above you. In this sense, you never "arrive," once and for all, on the mountaintop.

A climber arrives, fairly pumped, at a clipping stance on a sport climb. He is ten feet out from his last bolt and very anxious to get clipped in. He's tense, over-gripping, and out of balance. Gritting his teeth, close to falling, he finally makes the clip—and instantly relaxes. Immediately he finds another good handhold within reach. A sloping foothold he mistrusted suddenly feels very adequate.

First, accept that life is hard, and that transforming our life—or our abilities, which amount to much the same thing—is very hard.

Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe

It's our responsibility to create our life's work in something we are passionate about because that is the most effective way we can create happiness in our life. A life's work in "that something" is the best path to challenge us and it's the most effective way to serve others.

What I found in my search for meaning was this: It's our responsibility to create our life's work in something we are passionate about because that is the most effective way we can create happiness in our life. A life's work in "that something" is the best path to challenge us and it's the most effective way to serve others.