Sit quietly
Observe the heartbeat
Breathe your good intentions to your edges
In solitude, create the means to connect
Prepare your body to be offered
Your thoughts to be mined
Know your peace as light for others
Eat gratefully
Savor the foundation of all experience: matter transformed
Acknowledge the wonder of your body as conduit of truth
A morsel, a bite as energy
becomes lungs
becomes breath
becomes word sharing thought
becomes the echo of all consciousness
Work mindfully
Honor all the moments and movements with your focus
Ask yourself: am I here now?
Soon your heart will learn to say
I am I am I am I am
Before you ask the question
Dance madly
Why nourish a body and not celebrate its strength?
Why harness stillness at the cost of motion?
Why build heat and breath and joy
Just to keep them for yourself?
Love deeply
Bodies and words won’t do justice to our oneness
But we cannot cease to attempt the expression
Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016 at 12:31 PM UTC
Sit quietly
Observe the heartbeat
Breathe your good intentions to your edges
In solitude, create the means to connect
Prepare your body to be offered
Your thoughts to be mined
Know your peace as light for others
Eat gratefully
Savor the foundation of all experience: matter transformed
Acknowledge the wonder of your body as conduit of truth
A morsel, a bite as energy
becomes lungs
becomes breath
becomes word sharing thought
becomes the echo of all consciousness
Work mindfully
Honor all the moments and movements with your focus
Ask yourself: am I here now?
Soon your heart will learn to say
I am I am I am I am
Before you ask the question
Dance madly
Why nourish a body and not celebrate its strength?
Why harness stillness at the cost of motion?
Why build heat and breath and joy
Just to keep them for yourself?
Love deeply
Bodies and words won’t do justice to our oneness
But we cannot cease to attempt the expression
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