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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

George A. Sheehan

And where to all these highways go
Now that we are free?
Why are the armies marching still
That were coming home to me?
O lady with your legs so fine
O stranger at your wheel
You are locked into your suffering
And your pleasures are the seal

Leonard Cohen

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Carl Jung

We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again.

Laurens Van der Post

The political campaign won’t tire me, for I have an advantage. I can be myself.

John F. Kennedy

“I learned one thing.”

“What?”

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Time is Breath.

Gurdjieff

Once we open ourselves, then we land on what is.

Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Chögyam Trungpa