Quotes

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

Good intelligence, threat and trends analysis, security testing, pentesting and other activities have to happen constantly…

Any security product that is labeled “high security” isn’t.

Understand. Anticipate. Adapt.

Colsch’s (Keep It Simple) Maxim: Security won’t work if there are too many different security measures to manage, and/or they are too complicated or hard to use.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.

There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

René Daumal

Not really about packing light but about my longing to be in the mountains. Soon we’ll have fall and winter and I’ll be off to the mountains.
The quote was taken from Craig Mod’s fantastic writeup: Annapurna Moonrise. Go read it and take a moment to be quiet.

(via packlite)

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.