THE PATH WALKER
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INTRoDUCTIoN
Introduction
M first trip t Nepal was in 1986, in the midst f a persnalcrisis. I went t find m wn nirvana, s I climbed t the tp f amuntain and std there waiting fr the lights t g n and m lifet change. There I std, after 3 mnths f hard wrk, preparatinand training and came t a realisatin that was ttall terrible.I had all the mind nise up here that I had dwn there.I was me and bught it with me. Nthing had changed and evenwrse was the realisatin that I’d be taking mself hme, the sameas I arrived. N transfrmatin happened at all. I was still thinkingthe same wa, even thugh I reall believed this path wuld trans-frm me. It had changed sme things, but nt what I wanted.S, I went back hme, licked m wunds and did sme re-en-gineering. Then, I went back again. Since then, I’ve dne nearl 50trips up int thse Himalaan Muntains: sitting in caves, laughingwith mnks, dancing with Sherpa peple. Instead f searching, Icame t celebrate smething, in a ver special and sacred place.Everne has their wn Mecca. I mean, I’ve travelled extensive-l, t reall special places and met sme amazing peple, but theseHimalaan Muntains keep calling me back and frankl, there’ssmething ver familiar abut them.I’m nt a big fan f the past life stuff, but reall it’s srt f hardt get arund it when u g smewhere and hang ut with peplewh are just s familiar, just s uniquel cmfrtable that u feelmre at hme with them than are at ur wn hme.
The Path Walker
Experience is an expensive teacher.A hspital, divrce r the lss f self-respect are even mre ex-pensive. I knw, because that’s hw I learned mst f what I nwknw.I didn’t have bad luck. I was just t driven t hear the warningsignals, t bsessed with wrk and pla t see that I was n a rllercaster f m wn making. Eventuall the wheels fell ff and I wasgiven the luck break t be able t rebuild m shattered realit andget back n the bike.I’m a free spirited entrepreneur. I lve helping peple, and Id this nw and m full time life. But it wasn’t alwas this wa. Ibanged int walls, hurt mself, hurt thers, made stupid and unec-cesar mistakes and then gt back t life b learning frm eversingle blunder I made. I mean, that’s the benefit f these almst lifeshattering calamities we create, we can learn.The ke t it was t stp blaming the wrld, peple, luck, thestars, m karma and whatever else I culd find t distance mself frm realit In its place, I put nature.And that’s the str I’d lve t share here. Hw, using nature asa guide I gt back n the path, fund the beaut f life, sthed maching heart, ran marathns, climbed hills in the Himalaas and metsme extrardinar peple. Ever step is an pprtunit. All I had td was learn t take thse steps in the right directin.
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