I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential. Yossi Ghinsberg More Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg More Quotes From Yossi Ghinsberg May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is my advice to you, the adventurers - fear will show you the way; walk steadily toward it, for otherwise you will always be running. Have trust & faith to guide you like a torch piercing the darkness. Do not believe & do not deny, but find out for yourself - for there is no truth but the one you have earned in your own experience. Yossi Ghinsberg heartrunningbelieve I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. Yossi Ghinsberg scarcitygreedexpression As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era. Yossi Ghinsberg storiesheartadventure A naive dream is extremely powerful. Yossi Ghinsberg naivepowerfuldream I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me. Yossi Ghinsberg feelingmesimpledeath At one point, I shook a tree full of fire ants on my head just to have some pain to distract me from my aching feet so that I could continue to walk. Yossi Ghinsberg walkmefiretree A professional knows what's impossible. If you know it's impossible, it is impossible. But if you don't know it's impossible, suddenly it is possible. Yossi Ghinsberg professionalknowyouimpossible I had no lasting physical trauma nor a psychological one. Yet, it was hard to return to the old path. I found myself asking big questions: Why was my life spared? What is my purpose here? And it led me to a life of inquiry. Yossi Ghinsberg my-lifemyselfmelife As to the Amazon itself, the transition from conservation to sustainable development was a huge awakening since conservation was a western concept and strategy to encourage the developing world to protect biodiversity resources for the sake of future generations and the wellbeing of the planet. Yossi Ghinsberg sustainable-developmentfutureworld I have discovered that inner search by far is the most uncharted domain and it needs great courage and determination to cut through the dense vegetation of the mind so to speak before arriving at the core. Yossi Ghinsberg greatdeterminationcouragemind Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience. Yossi Ghinsberg youfutureexperiencepast I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance. Yossi Ghinsberg heroesgolikejungle My Uncle Nissim studied Kabbalah. Just before he died, he gave this tiny book, its pages yellow with age. He said it had special powers. I had a feeling that the book helped to keep me safe. My daughter is called Nissim after him. Yossi Ghinsberg medaughterageyellow Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes. Yossi Ghinsberg yoursurvivalpowerfullife I was young, out of the military service in Israel. I was looking for a big adventure, and I was searching for it. Yossi Ghinsberg lookingserviceyoungadventure Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway. Yossi Ghinsberg needgameyousurvival So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge. Yossi Ghinsberg challengeyousituationhero Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death. Yossi Ghinsberg dieyoutimedeath It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process. Yossi Ghinsberg memomentyoubook You eat anything when you need energy to survive and there's nothing in your body, when you are becoming just bones and tissues and muscles and I don't wish those circumstances on anybody. Yossi Ghinsberg youbodyenergywish
