A Meditation: Inspiration for Disciplined Practice

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I Talk To My Body
by Anna Swir

My body, you are an animal
whose appropriate behavior
is concentration and discipline.
An effort
of an athlete, of a saint, and of a yogi.

Well trained
you may become for me
a gate
through which I will leave myself
and a gate
through which I will enter myself.
A plumb line to the center of the earth
and a cosmic ship to Jupiter.

My body, you are an animal
for whom ambition is right.
Splendid possibilities
are open to us.

Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan.



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