Valentin Tomberg’s Breath of God

Breath of God: a Consent Cycle

ORIENTATION

The breath arrives
whether I notice or not.

I did not earn the wind.
I cannot hold it.

What if my yes
is the offering met.

My small attention
meeting the larger giving.

MORNING ALIGNMENT

I consent to be breathed.

What sustains me
did not wait for my readiness.

I offer back
what little I can give:

this day, this attention,
this willingness to meet the gift.

EVENING RELEASE

I release what I offered.

The breath continues
after I let go.

What I could not finish,
what tightened in the work,

I entrust to the wind
that carried me today.

I rest now.

William Britten

Valentin Tomberg, Meditations on the Tarot, Jeremy Tarcher, 1985

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