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I will lead you to the Desert...

Sahara algérien.

Partir encore, marcher toujours.
Détours après impasses, morts après renaissances, avancer.

Partir.

Oser encore le désert. Oser tous nos Déserts.
Suivre le conseil éclairé du Renard : se préparer, à trois heures moins le quart, au plus hasardeux des rendez-vous.
Y faire la plus inattendue, la plus émouvante et la plus Magique des rencontres.
Y faire, même, la rencontre de toutes nos Vies : la rencontre avec nous-mêmes.
...

Avec notre Dieu Intérieur.

Repartir alors sans plus jamais avoir Soif, bien plus loin encore.
Marcher, sans relâche ni repos.
Étoiles après dunes, s’arrêter d’un coup.
S’agenouiller, brutalement.
Harassé par la fatigue du Chemin, pleurer les yeux ouverts, danser les poings fermés.

Petits grains de sable perdus dans l’Infinité de tous nos Sahara à venir.
Réconciliés, apprivoiser le pas du chameau, anonymement patiné par des siècles de caravanes patientes.
Apprivoiser le Vent, qui ne demande, paraît-il, qu’à danser avec nos cheveux.
Apprivoiser le sable, qui s’impatiente lui aussi de nos pieds nus.

Arrêter de lutter.
Laisser le Silence Primordial du Désert nous violer, d’abord.
Le regarder ensuite fracasser une à une toutes nos peurs, avec une Tendresse Infinie.
L’inviter, même, à vaincre en dernier la Première de toutes nos peurs.
La plus profonde et la plus déguisée : la peur de notre propre Lumière.

Laisser le Silence nous envahir entièrement, enfin.
Et passer le reste de sa vie à le chercher et le rechercher encore dans tous les Bruits du Monde.

Oui, une fois pour toutes, se taire.
Ne plus rien faire que marcher.
Faire place au Silence et ne plus rien entendre.
Ne plus rien entendre pour pouvoir tout écouter.
Ne plus rien dire et retrouver sa Voie.
Et trouver son Voyage.

Le Premier de tous nos voyages est pourtant celui qu’on repousse sans cesse à plus tard.
Je partirai, demain.

Le Premier de tous nos voyages est géographiquement le plus court.
Et il est aussi le plus long : c’est celui qui mène de notre tête à notre Cœur...

© François-Xavier Prévot 2005.
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« de l’Himalaya au Sahara : s’arrêter, un peu. Repartir, toujours... »

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…through the eyes of Brahim, an ...
…through the eyes of Brahim, an Algerian Tuareg guide…
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Looking at the desert through th...
Looking at the desert through the eyes of the white camel with blue eyes, or...
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Setting off again, still walking...
Setting off again, still walking. Detours after dead-ends, deaths after rebirths, moving on…
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Engravings of elephants in the R...
Engravings of elephants in the Red Tadrart (mountain), close to the Libyan border, Algerian Sahara.
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…moving on step by step…
…moving on step by step…
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North of Djanet, pausing on the ...
North of Djanet, pausing on the summit of a dune to admire the vast, magnificent Erg Admer, Algerian Sahara.
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… to fill the jerry cans with wa...
… to fill the jerry cans with water.
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…mattresses, food, jerry cans of...
…mattresses, food, jerry cans of water and even gas bottles!
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Giraffe engravings, Algerian Sah...
Giraffe engravings, Algerian Sahara.
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Stopping a while only to carry o...
Stopping a while only to carry on once more…
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Were these men playing ball alre...
Were these men playing ball already ?  Were they holding a celebration of the moon? Or of the sun ? All these engravings in the Sahara date back more than…
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We are tiny grains of sand, lost...
We are tiny grains of sand, lost in the middle of all our Saharas to come…
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Preparing Taguella, sometimes kn...
Preparing Taguella, sometimes known as "sand bread".
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Giraffe engravings and Tifinagh,...
Giraffe engravings and Tifinagh, the written language of the Tuaregs (from at least 4000 years BC), Algerian Sahara. Tifinagh, like Egyptian hieroglyphs, can be read from left to right and from right to left, from top to bottom and from bottom to top…euh, I think I am going to learn english...
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10,000 years before Christ. Amon...
10,000 years before Christ. Among the tens of thousands of engravings and paintings in the Sahara (there are many still to discover…), the most surprising are the engravings of fish and even jellyfish !
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Giving, receiving. Rediscovering...
Giving, receiving. Rediscovering a sense of brotherliness, friendship, enthusiasm and simplicity in contact with the Tuaregs. True spirituality is Joy…
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Sunset at Tin Merzouga, Red Tadr...
Sunset at Tin Merzouga, Red Tadrart, Algerian Sahara.
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Symphony of colour in the Red Ta...
Symphony of colour in the Red Tadrart close to the Libyan border, southern Algeria.
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When the rocks and the dunes mak...
When the rocks and the dunes make love in the Red Tadrart…
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Houses in the old town of Dja...
Houses in the old town of Djanet.
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Petits grains de Sables que nous...
Petits grains de Sables que nous sommes, perdus au milieu de tous nos Saharas à venir...
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Ne jamais, jamais monter sa tent...
Ne jamais, jamais monter sa tente dans le Sahara : préférer toujours dormir à la belle étoile
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Undergoing the encounter of all ...
Undergoing the encounter of all our lives: a meeting with ourselves.
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Rock arch at Bouhadan, Red Tadra...
Rock arch at Bouhadan, Red Tadrart, Algerian Sahara
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Undergoing the most unexpected, ...
Undergoing the most unexpected, moving and magical of encounters…
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Going on…
Going on…
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to taste the first tea, as sugar...
to taste the first tea, as sugary sweet as Love…
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Taming the sand, which is also l...
Taming the sand, which is also losing patience with our bare feet…
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Sunset in the red Tadrart, Alger...
Sunset in the red Tadrart, Algerian Sahara.
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What makes the Desert beautiful ...
What makes the Desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well, at the bottom of a canyon…
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In the background, tumulus, or p...
In the background, tumulus, or pre-Islamic Tuareg tomb, known as a keyhole...
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Dying with a smile on your face…...
Dying with a smile on your face… and returning to the Earth… Tuareg tombs, Algerian Sahara.
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Stars over the dunes, stopping s...
Stars over the dunes, stopping suddenly. Kneeling down abruptly. Worn out by the Road, crying with your eyes open, dancing with your fists closed…
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Walking in Tassili N'Ajjer (tass...
Walking in Tassili N'Ajjer (tassili: marriage of rocks and sand), Algerian Sahara.
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Last little excursion for the sc...
Last little excursion for the scorpion before he hibernates through the long winter months…
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"Ya Ya", the Algerian camel driv...
"Ya Ya", the Algerian camel driver, checks the packsaddles of the 15 camels in our long caravan.
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Brahim, my Tuareg guide, stops t...
Brahim, my Tuareg guide, stops to admire the vastness of Erg Admer, Algerian Sahara.
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…Tuareg saddle, your…
…Tuareg saddle, your…
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Kader, tuareg guide and 4x4 driv...
Kader, tuareg guide and 4x4 driver, affectionately nicknamed "Cadet Rousselle n'a qu'une chaussette",  rests in a cave in the Red Tadrart, southern Algeria
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Looking for a good place in the ...
Looking for a good place in the guelta…
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Rock arch at Tamezguida, Red Tad...
Rock arch at Tamezguida, Red Tadrart.
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Tiny grains of sand lost in the ...
Tiny grains of sand lost in the infinity of all our Saharas to come...
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The very famous engraving of the...
The very famous engraving of the 'Weeping Cow', one of the oldest in the Sahara (dating back more than 10,000 years BC), close to Djanet airport. Legend has it that the name of the 'Weeping Cow' engraving comes from the fact that the cow, realising she was going to die because of the immense dryness that would come to the Sahara, began to cry…
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Quick, up on to highest dune of ...
Quick, up on to highest dune of the day's encampment. Enjoying the sunset in the Red Tadrart before falling asleep under the stars. Thank you…
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Near Tin Merzouga, Red Tadrart, ...
Near Tin Merzouga, Red Tadrart, Algerian Sahara.
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Footprint after footprint, tryin...
Footprint after footprint, trying to leave your mark in the sand. The first of all our journeys is the one we are always putting off until later. I'll leave tomorrow, our first journey is geographically the shortest. It is also the longest: it's the one that leads from our head to our heart…
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