Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

Inspired To Overcome

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“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” (Seneca)

Most people walk or hike the 2,000 + mile long Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in about 4 to 6 months, and every person does it for reasons all their own. It takes a different kind of person to run it in record time. 

"Ultrarunner Karl Meltzer has long dreamed of setting the speed record for crossing America's Appalachian Trail. Now he sets out for his third and final attempt to run the 3,523km (2,188 miles) in less than 46 days, 8 hours, 6 min."

What a person finds during a challenge of any size is that one can be his or her own worse enemy. Not nature. Not the problem. Not the obstacle. Those things are neutral, "good", even beautiful. Those very same things could care less who we are, what we think or how strong we are. We are the problem. We are the challenge. 

Be inspired to be a different person by this short 9-minute version of the film: 


Or watch the full 45 minute film on Netflix or on Redbull.tv at no cost. 

Well, I'm inspired to go harder, faster, deeper. How about you? 

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