We are breathing at this moment and will do so to the end of our lives. Feel your breath, gentle and calm. Breathe in slowly, and breathe out… just as slowly. Deeply. Inhale until your lungs are filled to their capacity, full to the brim with fresh air. What then? What do you have to do next to complete your breathing cycle? Exhale, of course. In order to complete the cycle of breathing, and live, you have to exhale every time you inhale.
Breath is life. When the cycle of inhaling and exhaling ends, life ends. A new life first begins with breath.
Our lives are analogous to the process of breathing. We inhale in life, growing and maturing, and then we begin to slowly exhale, getting older, eventually returning to where we started. Beginning and end are not separate, but one. Life’s indescribable beauty and sacredness arise out of this Oneness. All of life is a dance to this endless cycle of breathing.
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