“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy. The chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.”
Whatever you do, or dream you can,
begin it.
begin it.
Boldness has genius
power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
-Goethe
In the August of 2010, this message awakened a long dormant need for adventure within me. The seeds of a book were summoned forth and with them a move across the world to a new way of life and meaning of living.
As I read those words my heart began to beat faster, my breath held suspended in my chest and my ears filled with a chant that stays with me still:
Begin it. Begin it now. Now begin it!
