“The distance runner who accepts the past in the person he is, and sees the future as a promise rather than a threat, is completely and utterly in the present. He is absorbed in his encounter with the everyday world.… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Courage, then, has nothing to do with a single act of bravery. Courage is how one lives, not one specific incident. Just as mortal… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called “convenient deafness.” I still am. I have the ability to tune out what is going on around me. It is normal for me to retreat inside myself and become less and less aware of my surroundings. If I am in a group and not talking, do not suppose… — George Sheehan Copy Share
“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide our lives.… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of people in the service,” says Dickey, “who cried when they were discharged because they knew they would have to… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is that a man can live his entire life… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“If you think that life has passed you by, or, even worse, that you are living someone else’s life, you can still prove the… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ’There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject,’ said Chesterton. ’The only thing… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
