"If we're really engaged in mindfulnesss while walking along the path to the village, then we will consider each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower. enabling us to enter the world of reality.
"I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality. People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognise: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness p. 12
