People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.
When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds.
I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.
A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.
For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.