Running With Intent

There is no real reason - for some - running is simply the intent of spirit. We seek to expand past the borders of the body. All reasons give way to intent. The intrinsic being of steps and breath can only be expressed through earth and air. We match their intent and call it running.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Language

Running is our conversation with the world. There is a secret language of earth and step - a moment passed in deep connection. We have heard the silence told by stones and tree branches whispering through the air. This is our invitation - to speak with silence and whispers of our own. Our breath meets the wind - merging in a shared hush of air. Each step a subtle word spoken to the ground. We have stories to tell - and distance stretches far to hear.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Inspiration

We are inspired to run - from a single step to an infinite distance - we are called to motion. Running is spirit uncontained. We have simply expanded past the hold of form and continued in a rush of joy. This is inspiration - the pureness of a whispered urge with no will other than the fullness of expression. We have to run. We have to create. To not do so would be to deny the sacred urge that pulses through our veins - we must be wholly who we are.

We are runners - infinitely inspired.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Thought

Running is but the thought of motion expressed as form - a creative seed from the infinite mind birthed into being. There is a primordial urge from stillness to motion. A single thought that pulls us to action - run. A new world is created. Our thoughts have the power to manifest solidity from the dance of particles and infinite space. There is no ground until our eyes gaze the path and our steps kiss the earth. One thought-  held consistent - is all that is needed. We run to create. Space and steps provide the canvas of distance and the light brush of stride. The world waits for a single thought of motion.

Peace,

Eric

Running With The Breath

Running is the breath - the unseen essence of who we are in motion. A breath drawn in marks our declaration of being in the material plane. We breathe in our very existence to the world. It's this energy taken in from spirit that gives life and more - the wish to be expressed in the pure joy of motion. We inhale and the urge to run is born.

Exhalation is the gift of return. We give life back to the universe - we give life to the universe. We exhale in remembrance of the unseen. For a brief moment between breaths we exist in two worlds. We have given life and have yet to draw life back in. Running brings us to this edge in a rhythm of breath and pause - over distance we have danced with life and nonexistence. We are reminded that what sustains us can't be seen. The breath is a mystery and running the means for exploration.

Running is the breath.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Patience

We run with patience. A single step contains the infinite potential of our stride. Distance becomes the meditation of a singular movement within a flow of its expression. One step. Our thoughts wander towards places yet unreached - we find ourselves caught in a race against our own timeless nature. There is little joy beyond the present. We return. One step. The infinite unfolds from this moment.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Prayer

Our steps are prayerful - asking nothing save the ground beneath them. We could run like this forever. Runners pray in form and distance -our devotion laid out in breath and stride. The earth is holy and air gives life. We give thanks in motion.

Not every church needs walls.

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If running is seen as communication - a prayer asked and the answer instantly received beneath steps and breathed within - there is no distance we can't run.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Resonance

Everything vibrates - a singular pulse unique to its nature. Yet traced to its source each vibration is found born from a creative silence. The common home of all things. We are the song of nature. For a runner each step resonates in its return to source. Silence is found between the notes of steps and breath and beating heart. We're learning to listen.

We're finding our song.

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Everything vibrates and everything seeks resonance - the runner and the trail are a wish for harmony. The "Runner's High" is not a solitary effort - it's two notes resonating in a greater song. When we reach this level we feel as if we could run forever. Perhaps we could - we're no longer running under the effort of mind and legs alone. With this awareness -our solo runs bring us a to new harmony with nature and increased energy and appreciation. In races it helps us to lift others and offer a silent encouragement. Resonance - we're all vibrating to a greater song.

Peace,

Eric



It's All A Dance

The world is dancing. There is nothing solid - particles within particles all spinning within infinite space. Running is a dance of illusions. There is an agreement of solidity - distance played out as matter for the pleasure of our stride. We have joined the dance.

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In a very real sense this plays to our advantage - in a world of energy we can't be lacking. Play by the rules of distance running - hydrate, fuel and run wisely. Yet we don't have to limit our energy source. Draw power from earth and air. Feel the strength of trees and rocks as they lend us their support. The world expects us to dance with it - we have been invited.

Running is our acceptance to the dance.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Non-existence And Creation

We dream running - it is nonexistent until our steps meet the earth in a length of will and stride. Motion is the becoming of a runner. Until then running is a thought held in the infinite potential of heart and mind. From thought we have created the world. Imagine the power we have to dream the perfection of every run - the challenges as well as the grace and ease to meet them. Running is a dream for the awakened. May we all create with love and beauty.

Peace,

Eric

The Unlimited Reach Of A Single Step

Running is the expansion of Self - from steps to stride and further still to an infinite stretch of distance - we are unlimited in our reach. Our bodies are temporary expressions of a lifetime. Spirit resides within yet is not contained by the physical. We follow spirit. The urge for motion is a call to expand our reach past the finite world. Runners view distance as a reflection of the inner landscape - not to be conquered but to be known in the fullness of love. That's what running is - a love affair with the expansion of steps and Self - each present moment we meet the earth with an awareness that with one tiny, seemingly isolated step - we meet the world in one caress.

Peace,

Eric

Calling

Distance is our calling - our spacious nature reflected always in a further step. We run to know our inner world. Everything else the clarion call to motion.


Peace,
Eric



Our Spirit (And Steps) Know That This Is True

We run to simply know ourselves as motion - to feel the grounded flight of steps and the part of air against the skin. Running is the expansion of self. The path in its entirety is our destination and the infinite condensed within a distance. We know this on the subtle level of heart and stride. Every run is an enlightened moment.

Our spirit knows that this is true.

Peace,

Eric

Running With What Is Offered

We run with what the ground offers - unconcerned beyond the present step. Running offers the singular reality of the moment set within the flow of time. Our plan is to respond and every challenge a unique opportunity of acceptance. In the calm of our acceptance we find that we may always choose again. Distance is life played through steps and stride. Running allows the karmic scene to unfold within a certain frame - we are privy to the cause and effect of every step along the way. Running breeds awareness and through awareness - wisdom.

Peace,

Eric

Running Diminishes Us

Rain,
And I stand…willing
Myself as the
Earth –
Grateful in receiving.

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Gratefulness extends in all directions. Our steps are given to the earth in a pull beyond gravity - we are returning to the path of our creation - the physical dust of bodies again touching briefly on the ground. We are welcomed home. Our breath is gifted from the air - drawn from infinite distance and returned again with added life. We are reminded that the unseen sustains us. Running diminishes us - our sense of self is absorbed back into the fabric of life and being. We find ourselves in a constant of being received by something greater than ourselves alone. Running is what we give. Everything else is what's returned.

Peace,

Eric

My Grieving Path

I was leaving for a run when my father called to me that my mom had fallen. I waited with him for the ambulance, made sure all was in order at the house and then ran. I visited my mother daily. Everyday I ran. When the phone call came early in the morning that my mother had passed away - I drove my father to the Hospice where she had spent her last days. My father and I sat with her body for quite some time. Later that day I ran for many hours. We buried her on a very cold winter morning. The afternoon wasn't much warmer. I bundled up for my run. I learned how to run on the trails mourning the loss of my marriage - seeking a double healing of remote steps while lost in nature. There were entire days spent in motion. My steps became a healing prayer and the trail a return path to a sense of peace. I ran for forgiveness and to forgive.

Running has allowed me to escape nothing - it has

laid out my grieving path in steps of

acceptance and compassion.

Running was the moment of my healing.

Peace,

Eric



The Story Of Running

We are not runners - a mere thought given to the grace of motion. We are beyond labels. Who we are cannot be spoken - only expressed in terms of stillness and action. Running is the story of the soul told through motion. We are storytellers - moved through the fiction of space, time, and bodies. Our steps are wordless moments told to earth and sky.

We are not runners - we are the presence behind

these stories.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Adddictions

I have battled with addictions. It has often been said that many runners trade their addictions for the healthier alternative of running. This may be true for some - maybe for many. In my case I certainly don't feel compelled to run - I don't find myself in the grip of an addiction that holds mind and spirit as a vice. I feel free. I am certainly drawn to run. The experience of covering ground swiftly and with ease is healing on every level for me. In troubled times it has helped heal my body, mind and spirit. I am a dedicated runner as well - seldom missing training sessions and sacrificing many things to enjoy being fit for racing and to spend time on the road and trails. Being in nature plays a large role in this - I am more myself when I am alone in nature. The sacrifices I make to find this time are a price I am more than willing to pay. I am a better person all around when I do so. I am sure that this indeed does sound like an addiction to some. Yet it isn't. I have left my addictions behind. They are a distinct memory of another lifetime. Running is this lifetime. Running brings me to the interior room of silence that past activities never could. Once this room has been discovered - through running, meditation, prayer - we are never doubtful of its existence again and need little help reaching it. In this room addictions don't exist. For me this room holds motion and a silence found between thoughts, there is an awareness of body and its connection to the mind, an awareness of spirit and its connection to the world. Awareness is freedom. I have not traded my addictions. I have lost them through the lens of awareness.  I have discovered that running is salvation for those already saved. Motion is simply a reminder.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Order

There is Divine order to all things. We run to align ourselves with this order - to return ourselves to the rhythm of the world. First - we surrender - there is an allowance to be guided by a greater mind than ours. The universe thinks and moves through us - we are instruments of navigational wonder - our steps the vehicle for the infinite to explore itself. We give ourselves to the faith of that guides the world - trusting in the Divine order of all things.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Layers

Every run begins with layers. At the far end of distance our goal is laid bare in the essence of reality -only spirit exists. Our goal is met not in miles but by what we have discarded with each step. Running brings us to the realization of what we are not - we shed layers and labels and our false sense of identity. It's our ability to continue that helps us lose this sense of permanent self - we find nothing static in the course of our run. We are different runners every day, we change with each mile and even s single step brings us to a subtle lessening of our identity. The layers we once held as truth have been discarded. We are lighter. The weight of our identity is less. The goal - not so far away. In truth - running is the realization that layers are unnecessary. There is no real goal other then knowing this alone - only spirit exists.

Peace,

Eric

Running In Dialogue

We run in dialogue with earth and air. Our steps tell the story of bone and flesh and the weight of our becoming. Every breath is told in hushed tones of inspiration - we are alive and a celebration of motion. Our bodies speak of functionality and wonder - we are molecules dancing in the guise of solidity. The earth reminds us that we are one in nature. Each step a homecoming brief in its giving. Our bodies are of the ground - bound by spirit for a lifetime. The air speaks of mysteries - holiness gathered as a breeze and swept in silent language to the world. Earth and air are constant in their whispered secrets. Running brings us to this conversation. We are invited to share - to join the telling and listening of ancient truths.

We run to tell stories.

We run to hear stories.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Kindness

Be kind. Run with a kind heart. The path ahead is shaped by present thoughts. Kabbalah wisdom holds that we can be reactionary people or responsive Beings - the choice is always ours. Running with kindness means first practicing allowance. We accept what is and only then respond. Reacting means that we are often at the mercy of an outside stimuli or influence. A response shows that we have achieved a certain mastery of our internal states and our choices become a reflection of this inner calm. Kindness is our default mode. It's where we safely retreat to even in the midst of a choice gone wrong. It's kindness towards ourselves that allow us to make amends for a reaction that may not be in our best interest. With kindness we may always choose again. Our bodies and minds will become supple when held in kindness - we demand less and achieve more. Most importantly we find that we live in a responsive universe -our kindness is welcomed by earth and sky and the path ahead is clear in what it offers.

Peace,

Eric



Running To Beomce Less/Running To Be More

In essence we run to become less - with each step we give a fraction of self away. Distance holds no memories and at the far end of our path we find ourselves void of all but a single reality - we are spirit. In essence we run to become more - with every step we absorb the fabric of the world. Distance is our memory of the infinite and at the far end of our path we find ourselves fully realized in a singular reality -

We are spirit.

In essence - we simply run to know ourselves.

Peace,

Eric

Running With The Dream Of Pain

We are runners, dreamers - our path dreamed into existence by the faith of steps and soul. Through distance we find the transient nature of all things. Nothing is solid. Pain is an avenue of exploration - finding space within the pulse of every ache and a fluid sense of its location. We have dreamed of pain to lead through its illusion. Reality is beyond the body. Running takes us to the other side. Once there - only spirit matters.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Dharma

Every raindrop fallen has fulfilled its purpose. Each step taken has reached its distance. This is Dharma. Dharma is a Sanskrit word with multiple definitions - yet the underlying meaning is one of being in alignment with the way of the universe. Everything has a Dharma. Running is not our purpose - it is the manner in which we purposely choose to express ourselves in the fullness of our Being. That's Dharma. It's why we run.

Peace,

Eric

Running With The Buddha's Smile

The Buddha's smile - a subtle line curved against the lips. It hints of mysteries told. We run with the Buddha's smile -mysteries of our own played out in distance. Each step another universe opened to explore. We are content to simply witness. Secrets have their own accord. There is no rush - we are runners, patient in the revelation of steps. Our smile, the Buddha's smile, a runners smile - is a reflection of this patience.

Peace,

Eric

Running With (And Beyond) Duality

There is earth and steps and deeper still there is our connection. In truth we are a continuation of all that is - a stride not of steps and distance but a long caress of one. Running is our longing to return to wholeness. We give ourselves away so completely that nothing exist beyond the single step offered to the ground. We are absorbed in motion - the pure grace of our existence without the weight of time and expectations. Only motion. Caress and caressed as one.

Peace,

Eric

Running With Stillness

First we are stillness -and motion a whispered urge to know the world as a singular caress. We listen. Yet stillness remains the calm center of our Being. We choose to know the world through running - the quiet nature of Self a witness to where our steps may lead. We seek wonder. Always we return to stillness.

Until we hear that whispered urge once more....

Peace,

Eric 



Running With Emptiness

Even as our steps strike solid on the earth - emptiness greets them. The ground we run on is an illusion. Our true path is the spacious nature of reality. Running is the light of our Being swept against the infinite. We have thought the world into existence. Emptiness is a promise of potential. Everything we hold as real and solid is in fact a thought that we cherish. We are free to create and hold dear a brand new reality - at any time. Running is our chance to escape the grip of past fears and expectations. We are greeting emptiness with fresh steps on an untold path. There is nothing to take with us and nothing to leave behind - we have run to the empty place that holds only creation.

It's a brand new world.

Our steps are eager to explore.

Peace,

Eric



Running With...Running With

Running with...and so begins and ends the truth of our existence. We are aligned with all things. Running is a struggle only when we fight this truth - if we view ourselves as separate from the world then we have created an isolated act of fiction. We believe we run alone. The earth is alive and vibrant and connected to our steps. Trees respond to each heartbeat with their own subtle vibrations and even rocks speak silence in our passing. Everything is alive. Everything is aware because of our own awareness of all things. We are connected.

This is what we run with.

Peace,

Eric