Every Breath a Prayer

In our everyday lives of mortgage payments, taxes and traffic jams we rarely glimpse or experience the deeply real. It is easy to lose touch with the inherent wholeness which lurks beneath the stereotypes of other people and other places.
How many miles can be traversed as onlookers but never as witnesses? To pilgrimage, weather it is to the roof of the world or into the back yard, is an attitude, an enthusiasm which elevates the journey into the realm of spirit-renewing sanctity.
With keen preparation, attention, focus and respect the pilgrim discovers gurus, saints, buddhas and gods. Their relics are exposed; movement changes from mindless to mindful and in turn awakens the divine that is innate within each of us.
There is an energizing moment of actually being somewhere you had previously only dreamed or read about but know that pilgrimage is so much more. To make your next step mindfully, no-matter where it takes you, is to unleash the natural state of internal bliss which resides within and to seed a gift. That gift evokes awe and wonder that unfolds into our own. It is poetry, art, music, sound; it is the source that replenishes; it is the astonishment of possibilities that utterly transforms us.
Kabir, mystic philosopher and poet, wrote, “If you have not experienced something, then for you it is not real.”
My challenge to you this month is to move through space consciously, step into the sacred of your own making and make each breath a prayer.

Richard Rudis