New Year's Resolution

This ritual of New Year's Eve points playfully to the truth: we can recreate our world with this very breath from the core of our heart. In each of us is the spark of creation. It is the game of midnight on New Year's Eve, and we make a wish. But deep within we feel it might be so, this practice of intention, this chance to ignite something fresh and new in the world. Yet this practice is very ancient and very real. At the end of your exhalation, plant your intention in the heart, then release it. Don't hold on to the seed, simply drop it into that sacred furrow of silence, and let it go. There is a humble fallow point of no-thingness at the center of your chest, where the exhalation subsides, just before the next breath arises. This is the un-created space of infinite possibility, the space of pure unbounded consciousness, where worlds are born. Planted here, a spark of intention can radiate into every cell of your body, into the forest and mountains, into the stars. I wish you a blessed New Life beginning right now, with this breath of astonishment. You are never one moment old!