Breathe

Breathe and understand that you are alive.

Breathe and understand that everything is helping you.

Breathe and understand that you are the world.

Breathe in compassion and breathe out joy.

Breathe and be one with the air you breathe.

Breathe and be one with the flowing river.

Breathe and be one with the land you walk on,

Breathe and be the one with the fire that shines.

Breathe and discard the idea of birth and death.

Breathe and you will see that impermanence is life.

Breathe for your joy of being stable and serene.

Breathe so your pain flows.

Breathe to renew all the cells of the blood.

Breathe to renew the depths of consciousness.

Breathe and live in the here and now.

Breathe and everything you touch will be new and real.

~Thich Nhat Hanh