Quick, Quick, Quick

There were runners poorer than me. I felt sorry for them. And the people who were going ahead of me, I was admiring like anything. No jealousy, absolutely none! I was adoring them. It was an impossible task they were performing.
 
Sometimes old people-at least ten or fifteen years older than me-were going ahead of me. There was no competitive spirit on my part; only my admiration was coming forward. "These people are older than me and look how they are doing." They had such short strides-about half the length of my strides-but quick, quick, quick.
 
-7 October 1979  
  

[Source: "Quick, Quick, Quick" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 2, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1979.]