The Trusting Spirit
My days are short, and as I grow weaker,I experience so much gratitude for my meditation
--- not only the joy and ease it's brought,
but the hard parts,
for every bored and restless sitting
and every fearful fantasy
and every pain and ache I sat through
and every itch I didn't scratch
was training for kindness, a training for the muscle for bearing witness
for the trusting spirit
that carries me now as I face my death
-- Tamara Engle, member of New York Insight Meditation Society
