“If we take a look around us, we see people who are living like dead people. Albert Camus says that there are thousands of people moving about around us that are carrying their own corpses. Thanks to the practice of mindfulness, we come to life again immediately. Being alive is being in the present moment, in the here and now, and that is possible through mindful breathing. In Buddhist meditation, we practice resurrection every moment: ‘Breathe you are alive.’
The Holy Spirit is present with our mindful breath: ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ This is the very practice of living in the present moment, this day. We must not lose ourselves either in the past or in the future; and the only moment in which we can touch life is the present moment. In Christianity, we find the same teaching as in Buddhism.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, “True Love,” p. 82-83.
