Child's Advice

One day while running, I was talking to myself in Bengali, in my Chittagong dialect: "I can't go any farther."
 
What could I do? I was dying! I kept saying, "I won't be able to go any farther."
 
Then, a child about eight years old came up to me and said, "Don't talk. It will make you more exhausted. Don't talk."
 
-5 December 1978 
 

[Source: "Child's Advice" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 1, Agni Press, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]