Nature is So Cruel!

Nature is so cruel to us! To run 26 miles is not enough. It also has to be so windy and cold! Is it a joke? We say nature is kind. We are all the time trying to be as natural as possible and become one with nature's beauty. But nature has been so hostile to us-both in the Jersey Shore and the Long Island Marathons.

-1 May 1983




[Source: "Nature is So Cruel!" in Sri Chinmoy, Run and Become, Become and Run, Part 14, Agni Press/Aum Publications, Jamaica, New York, 1985.]