“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden
In every breath we awaken. At least we have the opportunity to awaken. What do I mean by awaken? In this case what I am drawing your attention to is the possibility that is nested within each breath.
There is a potential for saying yes to your life, or the choice to stay safe and cling to ways of being that are “comfortable”, or in other words deeply engrained in your every day way of being.
What if you started feeling into the whole of the breath, the entirety of the journey here? As in beautiful classical music, each listener is taken on a journey and each musician is on one as well. Will they chose to linger over every note to “get it right”? Or, will they feel into the whole of the journey and go where the music takes them, even when that means unfamiliar territory in the depth of expression.
Will life and breath play through you, or will you attempt to control life and contract your breath? This is an important question to pose and live within. I am learning that there is no control in a life lived freely and openly – there is only trust and being mindfully present to ones path. Paying attention to your life as if it really mattered….knowing that each breath absolutely matters!
Benjamin Zander, conductor, teacher and speaker – among other things – talks to us about “classical music with shining eyes” on a TED talk which is below. This is a brilliant expression of paying attention to your life as if it really mattered, and while doing so awakening possibility in other people.
Pay attention to the possibility in each breath….
TED talk with Benjamin Zander
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