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You are focusing on your breath. Our planet earth is inside your heart, and your breath is entering into, sustaining and nourishing the planet.
Please feel that what you are breathing in is not only oxygen and energy. What you are breathing in is entering into the breath, the hearts and the lives of all beings. While breathing, you can choose what qualities you will inhale. Imagine one quality that you might breathe in now, that will flow into the hearts and lives of all, that might improve the conditions of life. Imagine one quality that you might breathe in to ease the world’s pain, one quality that you might breathe in to make our world more perfect.
Please choose three qualities which you feel our world needs most urgently right now. And as the world is inside your heart, please consciously, deliberately and carefully breathe in each of these qualities one after the other. As you breathe in these qualities, they flow with your breath into the breath of all, into the hearts of all, into the lives of all – and life on earth is gradually transformed.
Like the gradual unfolding of a flower from a closed bud, watch as each petal slowly unfurls to reveal its own unimaginable beauty and release its exquisite fragrance. Watch and observe, as little by little, breath after breath, this blossoming flower, our world inside your heart, is gradually beautified, brightened and perfected.
Only when we accept the world as our very own, on the strength of our inseparable oneness-breath with the world, can we eventually transform the world – starting in our hearts’ inner imagination, which must ultimately flow into our outer life as well, blossoming into ever more fragrant, ever more radiant, ever more perfect perfection.