You can match the breath of the sun with your own breath, for when you breathe the Sun breathes too. It hears, sees and feels every one of your breaths and somewhere within its vastness light and fire shimmer and dance to the rhythm of your breath.
You and the Sun depend upon one another. You know you could not live without the Sun, but did you know that the Sun cannot live without you! For every breath you exhale is like a puff of wind from a pair of bellows which stokes its fires. Even, you might say, without you the Sun would expire. For it would be incomplete without you. It would be a different star. Its light would shine on a different world.
For its part, the Sun wishes you to catch fire, with an inner fire of divine joy, so that you may know its joy in being a doorway through which love may come from the Source of All to nourish you. You might say that when all beings in the solar system are alight with divine fire, then its work at this level is complete and it moves to a new state of being.
Let yourself become more conscious of your breath. The world changes shape with your breath, like a sail changing shape in the wind. Your breath links you to all life; it carries your essence as it is expressed in each moment out into the world and out of each moment a response is shaped, a gift from the All That Is, which you inhale and use to shape your next moment.
In this world everything breathes, even that which may seem wholly still and inanimate. Consider a stone. It draws in heat during the day and exhales it each night. It too is receiving from and giving to the Sun. It expresses its aliveness, in part, through this capacity to respond to the Sun’s love for it.
Now consider all the different rhythms, patterns and flows of breath the Sun witnesses as it holds Earth in the orbit of its love. Every single being on Earth, the Earth itself too, is reflected within the Sun in the motion of its fires. If you knew how, you could travel into its light and read the story of all living things on Earth. More than that, you could become the experience of each living thing, so vividly does this library of light mirror all life on Earth.
And it is through the breath that this living knowledge is conveyed to the Sun. Not just the breath of your body, the exhalation and inhalation of your lungs, but through the innumerable inflows and outflows of your being at every level.
But your breath is an example for you, that you are conscious of, that is to some degree under your volitional control, that is key to your living in human form. As you grow more conscious of your breath you open up to many wonderful insights into your own oneness with all life. You discover more and more that all life does not simply co-exist, but is wholly interdependent, from the highest to the lowest.
You can learn to feel your connection with all life through each breath, breathing the gift of your being out to the world with each outbreath, and gathering in the response of all that is in the next inbreath. You can come to experience yourself, through this gradually increasing observation of your breath, as not an isolated being, but as one with all life.
In this, the Sun comes to you as a teacher. It is its own joy in the oneness of all life that has enabled it to take on a body of fire and with it the responsibility of sustaining the life of millions of physical beings. You too are becoming a star. Your growing ability to experience your breath as a bridge which you cross many times a day to meet and share with the Universe the wonders of existence, is one way in which you carry back into yourself the light which will make you as radiant, as luminous and as brilliant as the Sun.
Practise breathing in the light of the Sun with each breath and imagine the gifts it brings you, as if your inner being becomes as vast as the Sun in order to have space enough for these gifts; and then from this storehouse exhale into form all that the Sun gives you.