to give all of oneself

stages 5-7

What does it mean to give all of oneself? 

This is a question I ask periodically, and it’s one I don’t think I really understood until I started to ride a bike with any kind of seriousness. Riding a bike taught me that there is, in fact, such thing as having nothing left, that the body could be a ghost of itself, taking the mind with it. It’s a humbling …