You cannot stay on the summit forever. You have to come down again...so why bother in the first place? Just this-what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not always know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one no longer sees, but one has seen. There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know...

rene daumal