Importance of Breath

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Breathing exercises are a part of virtually every mystical society from the Sufis to the Yogis to the ancient Mystery Schools.
https://wahiduddin.net/views/breath.htm
The Breath...
... Many Breaths, yet all One Breath
In his book Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabre D'Olivet says that the ancient Semitic root of the Hebrew ruach, and Arabic ruh is:

Every idea of expansion and aerial dilation: wind, breath, soul, spirit: that which moves, stirs, animates, inspires or transports.

Isn't that delightful?? Oh what a magnificent description! There is One Source which "moves, stirs, animates, inspires" us in every moment, yet most people are not awake and are therefore unaware of the wonder and glory that we are immersed in.Jalaluddin Rumi wrote:

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
        Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
        Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
         where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
        Don't go back to sleep.

Essential Rumi, pg 36, tr by Coleman Barks And that too is the breath.....

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/106675 ... imself-and
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“Breath, to a Sufi, is a bridge between himself and God; it is a rope for him, hanging down to earth, attached to the heavens. The Sufi climbs up by the help of this rope. In the Qur’anic language it is called Burak, a steed which was sent to the Prophet for his journey to the heavens. Hindus call it prana, which means life, but they picture it symbolically as a bird, which is named in Sanskrit Garuda, on which rode Narayana, the godhead. There is no mystical cult in which the breath is not given the greatest importance in spiritual progress. Once man has touched the depths of his own being by the help of the breath, then it becomes easy for him to become at one with all that exists on earth and in heaven.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan,
The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

"BREATH is the most important thing in life"....Inayat Khan.The breath of God is eternal energy. The breath of God is life. The breath of God animates all lives.In one of his spiritual messages, the Sufi scholar, philosopher and mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan gives a thought on the Mystery of Breath.His Thought: "To the mystic the subject of breath is the deepest of all the subjects with which mysticism or philosophy is concerned, because breath is the most important thing in life. The very life of man is breath. He lives in the presence of breath and in the absence of breath man is called a corpse. After death the organs of the body are just the same as before; the only thing that is lacking is breath.Breath is that within ourselves which keep all the parts of the body in connection with one another; it is that which enables man to move, to put his muscles into action, to keep the whole mechanism of the body at work. There is no other force or power concerned with all these than the power of breath.Mystics know that it is regularity of breath that brings good health; that irregularity of breath is the cause of all illness.......To practice for one moment with the help of breath will do more than a whole day's exercises carried out without considering the help of breath."(The lecture continues).....

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