Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

into them, that everything we are in contact with
connects us to the whole world in each moment, and
that things and other people, and even places and
circumstances, are only here temporarily. It makes
now so much more interesting. In fact, it makes now
everything.
Mindfulness of breathing is one string on which the
beads of our experience, our thoughts, our feelings,
our emotions, our perceptions, our impulses, our
understanding, our very consciousness can be
threaded. The necklace created is something new -
not a thing really, but a new way of seeing, a new
way of being, a new way of experiencing that permits
a new way of acting in the world. This new way
seems to connect what seems to be isolated. But
actually, nothing is ever isolated and needs
reconnecting. It's our way of seeing which creates
and maintains separation.
This new way of seeing and new way of being holds
life fragments and gives them place. It honors each
moment in its own fullness within a larger fullness.
Mindfulness practice is simply the ongoing discovery
of the thread of interconnectedness. At some point,
we may even come to see that it is not quite correct
to say that we are doing the threading. It's more like
we become conscious of a connectedness which has