Day 37…Inner Reality (July 24)

The weather broke today and in so doing the drop in temperature brought irregular waves of heavy showers. A blessing for most and a mixed curse for those with already blistered feet.

For Harita things are going very well. She is consistently running 60 mile days and now only has to maintain a 59 mile a day average in order to cover the final 956 miles. A distance which is further than the entire length of her country New Zealand.

When asked if she ever imagined that things would have worked out the way they have, she says, “No.”

“I really didn’t think about it actually. I had no idea. I didn’t have any goals. It was always just to do my best, really, and to keep it all in God’s hands.”

“The only reason I am doing it is because I had the inspiration that this is what my soul wanted me to do. So then I felt, whatever I do, I will do my best.”

“I can’t believe that it has been 5 weeks. It feels like is has been just a big blur of one day. I don’t know whether or not I am surprised because I really had no idea what to expect. I have seen a lot of difficult things happen to people over the years. A lot of really big challenges.”

“There is always going to be something wrong. There is always going to be a pain here or an ache there. Feel like your getting a stomach virus. So I am learning to accept that and be okay with that.”

“So you have to keep going which is an incredible lesson for life that you can’t be affected by obstacles. To see them as part of life. They make you stronger. They really help you develop faith, and confidence, and patience, and perseverance. So many qualities that are so essential for life.”

“I am really not trying to think about the whole distance. That is really hard. Your mind just wants to constantly think about how many more days, how many more miles. As soon as your knee gets sore you think how will it ever be possible to do 20 more days. My mind is constantly wanting to look into the future like that.”

“Try and figure out how impossible this is going to be. So I am really trying focus on living in the moment. Be happy in the moment. That is probably my biggest challenge.”

“I am much more aware of the inner reality all of the time than I am in my regular life, and of the importance of my state of consciousness. Also just the fact that it is there and it is a tremendous opportunity to pray and to meditate and to be closer to the divinity that we all have at every moment within us but we so often removed from it because of our outer lives.”