The Slow Runner

Once, a 60- or 70-year-old man was following me during a run. Then he said to me, "Young man, what is the matter? Why do you run so slowly?" For fifty metres he ran with me, but then he gave up. He was so out of breath.
 
-25 July 1979
 

[Source: "The Slow Runner" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 1, Agni Press, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]