The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. They see me alone and friendless on a journey that has no visible beginning or end. I appear isolate...
The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.