Savor

          

"Savor every inch of breath in your body." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One inhalation is incalculable abundance. This breath, an influx of wonder, brings more revelation that the Bible, the Qur'an, or the Vedas, because it is their source. Every inspired text or prophecy springs from the silence where this breath is born, and to which it returns.

To delight in this breath is the end of war. To delight in this breath is the end of consumerism and craving. When you savor this breath, your needs are few. When your needs are few, you exploit no one. You walk softly over the earth, tasting every step in the present moment, the green in the moss, the murmur of a tree frog. Walking this way, you are free. In a very innocent way, you can live simply, sustainably, without preaching, without political parties.

Wherever you stand is holy ground. Remove your shoes. You do not take this breath, you receive it, and just to breathe is worship. For the span of a single inhalation, which encircles the heart of eternity, repose in true wealth. Then offer it back to the giver, the Mother of creation.

When you make conscious the unconscious miracle of an ordinary breath, you sip the wine of the Spirit from the grail in each cell of your body. You awaken Adam from the dust, and Adam becomes the Christ. 

Image: New blossoms right outside my window