“There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.”

— Morihei Ueshiba

Morihei Ueshiba, as quoted in You Can Save the Earth: 7 Reasons Why and 7 Simple Ways, a Philosophy for the Future (2008) by Hatherleigh, Sean K. Smith, and Andrew Flach, p. 92
Context: Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.

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founder of aikido 1883–1969

Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) American physicist

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“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire

Source: Wings of Fire, p. 90.

“The view we enjoyed from the summit [of Mount Rainier] could hardly be surpassed in sublimity and grandeur; but one feels far from home so high in the sky, so much so that one is inclined to guess that, apart from the acquisition of knowledge and the exhilaration of climbing, more pleasure is to be found at the foot of the mountains than on their tops. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

"Washington and the Puget Sound" in Picturesque California (1888-1890); reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 20
1880s

“Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.”

John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright

The Knight of Malta (1647), Act I, sc. i.

“The sure path can only lead to death.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.”

Jon Krakauer book Into Thin Air

Source: Into Thin Air (1997), Ch. 1.
Context: Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.