{"id":1277,"date":"2017-10-27T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnandgrowrich.net\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T18:16:49","slug":"the-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/the-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"The runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"848m4\" data-offset-key=\"7qfkp-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7qfkp-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7qfkp-0-0\">It didn&#8217;t take me long to understand this story that came up&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"848m4\" data-offset-key=\"drlpg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"drlpg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"drlpg-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"848m4\" data-offset-key=\"14kke-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"14kke-0-0\"><em>&#8220;It starts with a person running &#8212; running, running, running through fast flashes of different scenery. Sometimes the running feels playful, sometimes the running feels needful, sometimes the running is frightful, as if being pursued. At one point the runner collapses and seems to decide to stop running and just face what happens next. There\u2019s a sense of a new dawning coming, but the runner panics and begins running again, but this time the pursuit feels very real, a snarling tiger is coming up fast. Finally the runner can no run no more, she turns and as she sees the tiger gain and come closer. It slows, now less ferocious, now smaller and smaller, andhttps:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvarinally comes upon her, sidling up and purring to be cuddled.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"848m4\" data-offset-key=\"1sn4f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1sn4f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"848m4\" data-offset-key=\"ejmda-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ejmda-0-0\">\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"ejmda-0-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1299 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6599685777_9631f34b4e_runner-in-mist-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6599685777_9631f34b4e_runner-in-mist-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/6599685777_9631f34b4e_runner-in-mist.jpg 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"1sn4f-0-0\">It&#8217;s the life story!<\/span>A<span data-offset-key=\"1sn4f-0-0\">ll the seeming movement and changing conditions, and the times where awakening into peace and stillness are there on the horizon, but the ego flees in renewed terror until finally, finally there is no strength left to continue the terror and madness, and the dawning of awarenss brings a profound sense of well-being and love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn&#8217;t take me long to understand this story that came up&#8230; \u00a0 &#8220;It starts with a person running &#8212; running, running, running through fast flashes of different scenery. Sometimes the running feels playful, sometimes the running feels needful, sometimes the running is frightful, as if being pursued. 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