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