Watching Strides

When I see any runner, I don't look at any part of him-not at his head, not at his face, not at his feet. Even in the car if I see somebody running, I don't see the runner. Immediately I look only at his strides. I have that wonderful disease; I can see only the strides.
 
-20 June 1982 
  
 
 
[Source: "Watching Strides" in Sri Chinmoy,  Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 11, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1983.]