Walking as a miracle

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I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality. People usually consider walking on water or in the air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize : a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

[HANH, 1987 : 12]

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REFERÊNCIA BIBLIOGRÁFICA

HANH, Tich Nhat. The Miracle of Mindfulness – An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation. Boston : Beacon Press, 1987, pp. 140. ISBN 0-8070-1239-4