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Ernest Hemingway had a method where he left his typewriter midsentence. That way, he always had somewhere to start. I try to follow his example.
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The Myth of Balance
Seventeen years ago to the day, I was at a bar in Athens, Greece with two other guys who’d run the Athens Marathon that morning. One of them was turning out to be a total sleazebag, hitting the bartender with all the lines—even though he was married.
“What’s next?” I said. “Ask her her sign?”
Then she turned to me and asked what mine was.
“Libra,” I said. She was a libra, too.
“I guess it means we’r
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“When I run, whether or not it is among other people, my pulse beats faster, and my breath flows deeper. Heat rises, pores open, and sweat pours. Breath steadies as each foot falls into the grasp of gravity for an instant, another instant, and another. Moments between footstrikes, moments between heartbeats, and moments between breaths, no matter how brief, merge and become
one stillness. Consciousness surges through thousands of miles of synapses, both toward the sky and down to the dirt. Absence and
presence are synonymous as they are stillness within movement, where distance doesn’t matter, because distance is infinite.”
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one stillness. Consciousness surges through thousands of miles of synapses, both toward the sky and down to the dirt. Absence and
presence are synonymous as they are stillness within movement, where distance doesn’t matter, because distance is infinite.”
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“The surface of the ocean moves like muscle, but
underneath it is the pulse of the ebb and flood, like my heart urging
the movement of blood and limbs over a distance through space.
When I run a long enough distance, it is all-the-more-clearer that
I’m just a vessel of consciousness constructed of cells and bacteria.”
― A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide
underneath it is the pulse of the ebb and flood, like my heart urging
the movement of blood and limbs over a distance through space.
When I run a long enough distance, it is all-the-more-clearer that
I’m just a vessel of consciousness constructed of cells and bacteria.”
― A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide
“I was never a stellar student, but I paid attention to the interesting parts — and as I understand it, gravity between the sun, our planet, and the moon pulls the ocean in a
rhythm as reliable as night and day, summer and winter, or spring and fall. It creates ebbs and floods in a pattern that the rotation of
a clock, the breath in a pair of lungs, or the beating of a heart could never match. The tide was turning long before life existed, and it will keep turning long after we’re gone.”
― A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide
rhythm as reliable as night and day, summer and winter, or spring and fall. It creates ebbs and floods in a pattern that the rotation of
a clock, the breath in a pair of lungs, or the beating of a heart could never match. The tide was turning long before life existed, and it will keep turning long after we’re gone.”
― A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
― Into the Wild
If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.
Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”
― Into the Wild
“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
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