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But to this notion of bloodletting and the material transmutation of forms there corresponds an idea of purification. It has to do with isolating the very essence of any sensual ecstasy experienced momentarily and individually by the
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“Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“Injuries are our best teachers.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.”
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
― This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
― Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“The empty mind is a dominant mind. It can draw other minds into its rhythm, the way a vacuum sucks up dirt or the way the person on the bottom of a seesaw controls the person on the top. When I hear a runner say he “runs his own race,” what I hear is bushido.”
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
― Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
James’s 2025 Year in Books
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