A Runner’s Thoughts: “Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” (Dean Karnazes)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.” (George Sheehan) We might say that prayer is the sweat of the spiritual life and it too cleanses from within and it touches places no rituals can reach. So, if we take the time to pray each day we can cleanses our total self!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “When we truly love, we simply love, regardless of the worthiness or value of the object. No wonder that we speak of being “in love,” because it is a state of being more than an occasional, deliberate action. It will often feel like wonder, and our eyes will temporarily wide open and receptive.” (Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
(Mark Twain) A Runner’s Thoughts: A prayer to live by – “father, creator of unfailing light, give that same light to those who call to you. May our lips praise you; our lives proclaim your goodness; our works give you honor, and our voices celebrate you forever.” (Psalm Prayer for Sunday Morning Prayer Week I)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” (Dean Karnazes)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” (Unknown)
A Runner’s Thoughts: We should throw ourselves into God as a little drop of water into the sea, and lose ourselves indeed, in the ocean of the divine goodness. (St. Jane Frances de Chantal)
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Fr. Paul R. Fagan, C.P. "Preacher on the Run!"A thought from time to time about Running and Life! Archives
May 2023
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