Day 13c: Being consequent with Consequence … (04/27/2019)
It may seem silly to many of you, and yet one of the more astounding feats of will I displayed during the entire Walk happened on this day as I neared the town of Ehrenstetten, when (after having eaten nothing but two small rolls of bread over the course of the previous 2 days) I stopped into a small bakery, asked for a glass of water, and then — despite having great pangs of hunger and sitting alone with no one else nearby — refused to eat the luscious lone pumpkin seed left on my table by its previous occupant … :O
“It is not our greatest enemies or most acute torments that we fear the most. We most fear our greatest potential. In truth we are most afraid to become that which we glimpse in our most perfect moments, under the most perfect of conditions, in times of our greatest courage, in instances of our most faithful consequence … Indeed, the most powerful step of any truly courageous individual is to refuse to give in to even the smallest of temptations; to refuse to reflect even the slightest manifestations of the ego’s incessant call to quietly cave to petty worries &/or the most banal of desires.” ~ inspired by Abraham Maslow & Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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