I’ve been trying to be more consistent with my daily mediation in terms of regularity and duration. Still to this day, it astounds me how powerful the breath is. We breathe our entire lives, from our first moments until our death. Most of the time we let the involuntary muscles run it in the background. But it is with the breath we can find presence, we can find calm. We creatures on this planet evolved to breathe, a form of continuously interacting with the matter of the universe outside ourselves. It is through this interaction that we can experience union with the universe. Perhaps if we visit this communion more often, we can be more at peace, and thus impart peace upon the world. It truly all begins with the breath.