Jim Murphy

She said, that's a word in the Bible, a Greek word used a lot.

It's the word for life, but it's not just any life.

It's not the bios life, which is biologically alive.

It's absolute fullness of life.

And in the Bible, Jesus talks about it.

John 10, 10, I came to bring you life and life abundantly.

And so that's the kind of life that she said, I think you're talking about.

And I said, yes, my whole life I've obsessed about being some sort of a superstar.

When I realized now I've always wanted to feel fully alive.

So I started to revolve my book around the pursuit of fullness of life and let everything else be added to you.

So I'm doing this, writing this book, and then the book comes out and I have a near mental breakdown, five years of full-time writing and research, spent my life savings, $90,000 in debt.

And I go to, I'm having this near mental breakdown.

I call my friend, Ricky, who was there and I said, tell me what to do.

He said, find a homeless person and help him.

So I go find this homeless harpist.

right around the corner in Denver, the thing that King David used to play.

You don't see these too often.

And so I gave him some money and I left and went to go run on the treadmill back where I was staying just to try and breathe and get through the day.

I come back to that same area a couple hours later.

I'm so filled with anxiety at the time.