Brakes

At one point during the marathon I saw a man who was in such pain and agony that he was walking. When you get cramps, you forget even your parents' names. When you use the car brake, you don't feel the car's pain. But when cramps put on the brakes, you feel the pain in your entire body.
 
-11 June 1982 
  
 
 
[Source: "Brakes" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 10, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]