“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.”
P.S. At the Skill of Stress course I recently attended, one of my favorite teachers, Emily Hightower, said something along the lines of (paraphrasing) “Don’t take a breath; give an exhale.” I think that’s a perfect complement to this quote 🙏