Chris Bennett > Quotes

“I believe that if you do the right verbs you’re going to surround yourself with the best nouns, and that will lead to living a life that merits the greatest adjectives.”
― Chris Bennett, This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running.: Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line – A Philosophy on Resilience, Self-Trust, and Moving Forward

“I don’t think being nervous is a problem. Unless you allow those nerves to hold you back from where you are meant to go, what you are meant to do, who you are meant to be. Because being nervous means you care. It means what you are about to do means something to you. Being nervous means you are passionate. Being nervous means you are alive and you are taking a risk on the chance that you may do something extraordinary. Being nervous means you are making changes. Being nervous means you are trying something new. Being nervous means you are excited. And good gracious, we don’t get excited enough! We don’t get passionate or nerd out about the stuff we love enough. We don’t put ourselves in a position to potentially fail and therefore potentially succeed enough.”
― Chris Bennett, This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running.: Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line – A Philosophy on Resilience, Self-Trust, and Moving Forward

“It seems likely that by the time humanity began weaving the fibers of the plant [cannabis] into cloth, they had already been familiar with it for centuries, if not millennia.”
― Chris Bennett, Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult

“Your running is about more than the physical act of running. It’s about emotions and mindfulness. Running is about more than building endurance so you can run farther. It’s about learning that you have what it takes to endure in life.”
― Chris Bennett, This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running.: Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line – A Philosophy on Resilience, Self-Trust, and Moving Forward

“Every run has a running purpose. And every run has purposes that have to do with so much more than running. You run because you need to break a losing streak and you know that starting a run is a win. You run because you are meant to move and you are meant to be outside and you are meant to challenge yourself. The purpose of your easy run may be to meet up with friends or teammates. The purpose of your long run may be to explore that new park. The purpose of your speed run may be to push yourself out of your comfort zone. The purpose of your run could be to deal with stress in a more positive way than you have been. Maybe the purpose of your run is to get away from it all so you can spend some time with your thoughts. Maybe the purpose of your run is to get away from your thoughts. It's your run. You get to give it a purpose.”
― Chris Bennett, This Is About Running. This Is Not About Running.: Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line – A Philosophy on Resilience, Self-Trust, and Moving Forward

“In a sense, the rediscovery of the Nag Hammadi Library marks the resurrection of a more historical Jesus, an ecstatic rebel sage who preached enlightenment through rituals involving magical plants, and who is more analogous to the archetypal magician, than the pious ascetic and crucified savior that has come down to us through the Bible’s New Testament.”
― Chris Bennett, Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal Herbs and the Occult