Lesson 2

Sufism 101
Lesson 2
Breath Is Central to Sufi Practices

In Just One Breath

In just one breath
I fell in Love all over
Again.

I rose to meet
Your Pure Light.
In that rising,
I became as meaningless
As You.

Alas, the moment passes.
The next breath,
Your Light: a faded Memory.

It’s all OK,
Move with the flow
Of even next breath’s blow.

Be not afraid
We’ve all been saved
From the moment we were born.

© 2007 Noosphere Communications


You have probably heard that breath is life. This is literally true. There is more to breath than we first can know. It is the breath that influences every attitude, though, or feeling we ever have. All of creation breathes. The breath of a rock is very long, perhaps tens of thousands of years.

Mastery of the breath, therefore, is mastery of life.

© 2007 Noosphere Communications