Budgeting breaths

Just as people around the world focus on budgeting their finances to make ends meet, we can also consider a different kind of budget. Besides what we amass in this physical world, we have the capital of a certain number of breaths to use in our lifetime. We may know how to budget our finances, but do we ever reflect on how we are budgeting the principal of our life's breaths given to us as a gift from God? In other words, how are we spending our time: haphazardly, wastefully, or with purpose? Once we reflect on how we are using our breaths, we can then determine how to better use the time we've been given in this life. We have 24 hours in a day to budget toward our life's purpose. Just as some of our finances go to the necessities of life-such as food, clothing and shelter-so do our breaths go toward activities relevant to our physical survival.

We have to spend time taking care of the bod. We also spend time earning a living to pay for the necessities of life: We work, school and get training for our jobs. If we have a family, we need to take care of them. We also want to be a contributing member of our community and be of service to others. Beyond this, we are left with time we can spend any way we like. This is the area that we can budget toward our spiritual life. Masters teach that we do not have to wait until this life ends to discover what lies beyond. We can witness the inner spiritual realms during this lifetime by sitting in silence, focusing our attention within and exploring the inner spiritual treasures.