Relaxation Rewind! A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir, Part 1
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The Overmastering Impulse
"For many a year I have been impelled toward the Lord's Tropic Gardens of the South. Many influences have tended to blunt or bury this constant longing, but it has outlived and overpowered them all." "Few bodies are inhabited by so satisfied a soul that they are allowed exemption from extraordinary exertion through a whole life," he wrote in his journal before leaving for Florida. He observes that there are tides not only in the affairs of men, but in the primal thing of life itself. In some persons the impulse, being slight, is easily obeyed or overcome, but in others it is constant and cumulative in action until its power is sufficient to overmaster all impediments and to
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