The key virtue of the satyagrahi is internal selfdiscipline. It means being ready to take blows without returning them, go quietly when unjustly arrested, and suffer humiliation, slander and insult without replying.

a small repeated action: a discipline. The work was not produced in a flash of inspiration suspending time, but built up stone by stone.

moving through that immense muffled frozen landscape, then you walk quickly and well, to keep warm by feeling the heat of your own body. The well-being in walking in the cold is partly from that feeling of a small stove burning in your vitals.

Nature thus awakens us from the human nightmare.

that you have to be able to detach yourself from all the useless possessions that burden us, but of digging a little deeper, past the useful, down to the necessary. It’s more than frugality: being content with little, being careful.

capitalism designated the moment when the concept of merchandise extended beyond industrial products, to include art works and people. The mercantilization of the world: everything becomes a consumer product, everything is bought and sold, available on the great market of endless demand. The reign of generalized prostitution, of selling, and

But what we didn’t yet know is exactly what we forget immediately. Because as soon as we know it, we have to leave room for what we don’t yet know, which will come tomorrow.

The hastening passer-by combines velocity of the body with degradation of the intellect. He wants only to go fast and his mind is empty, preoccupied with slipping through the interstices. The

Little by little you lose your identity and memories along the way. Crossing a pass, one arrives at last in the Puyrang valley. Suddenly you are in a different landscape, a shining, transparent minerality.