<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; ">Practice</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">Not the high mountain monastery</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">I had hoped for, the real</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">face of my spiritual practice</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">is this:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">the sweat that pearls on my cheek</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">when I tell you the truth, my silent </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">cry in the night when I think</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">I’m alone, the trembling</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">in my own hand as I reach out</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">through the years of overcoming</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">to touch what I had hoped</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">I would never need again.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Kim Rosen</p></body></html>