e3 : “entertainment, epistemology, empowerment.”

“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 sort 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 favor
all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings
and materal assistance,
which no man could have dreamed
would have come his way.

I have learned a deep respect
for one of Goethe’s couplets:

“Whatever you can do,
or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.”

Quotation from:
The Scottish Himalayan Expedition,
By W. H. Murray