“It is such a small movement, coming back to the sensation of the body and breath. And yet thi

“It is such a small movement, coming back to the sensation of the body and breath. And yet this is the key to the kingdom. This is worth repeating: In Pali, the language of the earliest Buddhist texts, ‘sati,’ a word used for mindfulness literally means to remember the present moment. Remembering the present moment can be something very small, noticing the warmth of our hands around the coffee mug (or the lusciousness of a bite of dark chocolate). But remembering the present can also be profound and vast. Suddenly remembering that we are alive on the earth and under a sun and part of a cosmos. The whole of our lives, everything that has every happened to us, is contained in the present moment, and we see that our being here at all is suddenly revealed to be miraculous.“ 

—Tracy Cochran, Easter 2019. Read the full post here.

Pictured: David Marcu, Ciucaș Peak, Romania (Unsplash)