The Curved Line

I am a person.

We are all indivisible individuals. Unique compounds.

The integration of the total of my components forms me.

The act of breathing is living.

Breathing takes two moments. Inhale and exhale. They are short and elementary acts, we perform them automatically.

Our survival depends on them, beyond the obvious.

The life of each person is a curved line formed by the finite succession of their breaths, that is: of their moments.

And there is no hierarchy in the moments, there are no superiors or more important ones. They are not reorderable, relocatable, or categorizable. They simply are. And they exist only in our inhalation and another in the exhalation.

And we cannot change, store, or defer breathing.

Therefore, we create moments by breathing, and we always breathe.

And since moments only exist in the present, our life takes place in the now, in this moment.

The moments, like us, are unique, and also composed.

So, we live while we breathe, literally. We live our finite number of moments, no more. That is our individual life.

But our components are different in their state, level, duration, nature, scale, and importance.

Our being is governed by hierarchies.

It is important to remember that we are, and then we could ask ourselves: who are we? Why are we here? And so on.

It should be clarified that remembering is different from knowing.

Remembering is bringing to mind information that we already knew previously.

Therefore, how I am constituted is linked to a single act: the act of my creation. In other words: the moment of my creation.

The present in which I was created.

My creator is God, and when he created me, his will substantiated my being, and to do so he substantiated a moment in which to create me.

In other words, God created a moment and used it to create me.

I remember that time is the infinite sum of all moments.

Therefore the will of God is also time.

And I say also, because it is not given to me to know the will of God, nor its constitution.

And if time is the result of the will of God, God created it by his will.

And when he so desires, he uses it as one more of the instruments of his will.

Breathing: The Gateway to Now

Time was also created in his likeness: it is eternal, immutable, and intangible. Nothing can change time, nor manipulate it.

And it is useful for our life to remember clearly that:

Time is the infinite sum of moments, and that moments exist only in the present.

With our breathing we instantiate moments, that is, present.

No one can ever leave their present, advance or regress it, because time is eternal, immutable, and intangible.

Therefore, all we have is the present, and it is all we need.

And since the will of God is also the present, it is clear that:

All we need is the will of God.

That is the slogan of wisdom.

The will of God, like time, does not belong to us.

But we are allowed to use its attributes.

By breathing, we instantiate moments, we instantiate our present. And by meditating transcendentally, contemplatively, God allows us to remember, to the extent of his will, our origin. And our origin is much earlier than birth as individuals.

And it also allows us a brief and limited form of dialogue with his will instantiated for us by him.

It is like shouting and hearing the echo return, something very confusing.

And meditation is the channel that I know, but surely there are infinite ways to access the will of God to the extent that he allows it, and for what he allows.

Obviously, the will of God cannot be changed, but it is possible to gain his favor, and his good will, he will know.

It is not that God needs us to meditate, it is simply an instrument available to us that he does not need to fulfill his will, but that we can instantiate to access limitedly some of his attributes and gain his good will.

Connecting With our Hope

In order for the result to be effective, it is imperative to add the two resources that save humanity to contemplative meditation: Love and Faith.

Meditation offers a way to connect with God grace, regardless of your specific belief system. By focusing on the present moment and cultivating breath awareness, we can access a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.