I Need Admirers!

This morning, near my 100-metre mark, I saw a man with a dog on a leash. He was an old man, fat and tall; he was totally out of shape. He was admiring my running. I said to myself, "I need admirers!"

-1 June 1983




[Source: "I Need Admirers!" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]