What We're Looking For



Beyond our names of

recognition -

something deeper calls...and we answer

with a silent language of our

own.

~
I think this is why we run ultras, climb mountains and seek the wilderness - the ineffable calls to us and it's silent voice is veiled by crowds and cell phones and traffic and chatter. Herman Melville wrote that silence is the only voice of God and Psalms 46:10 urges us to "Be still and know that I am God". We seek stillness and silence to gain back our inner voice that is far beyond the world of noise, we are looking for the edge of our worldly existence where we leave off and become this spirit of our true being. Sages and Yogis have long sought out wild places and now as endurance athletes we claim this territory as well. We are out running our to gain a true Self and identity of Spirit. Our bodies are vehicles to the Infinite and as the Persian poet Rumi said -

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

 

Eric