Dolores LaChapelle Quotes About Skiing

• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in powder is the original human self, which lies deeply inside each of us, still undamaged in spite of what our present culture tries to do to us. Once experienced, this kind of living is recognized as the only way to live — fully aware of the earth and the sky and the gods and you, the mortal, playing among them.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Fun, Lying, Reality

• Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Sports, Fun, Reality

• Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powder… This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Running, Gratitude, Stupid

• One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Wind, Sky, People

  Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

• Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  People, Snow, Effort

  Dolores Lachapelle (1984). “Earth Wisdom”, Finn Hill Art

• How could I live without powder?

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Skiing, Powder

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