Breath

What is this breath? Where does the breath begin? Does is begin to be called the breath at the nostrils? Is it still the breath 1 cm away from the nostrils? 10 cm away? 20 cm away? When does the breath come to be called space or the air around us? In Finnish the word breath - henki - also means spirit. And it is so in many other languages as well (I just can't think of any others at the moment). Aren't we intimately connected to spirit with each and every breath? What else is this stuff that we breathe in? The infinite, the spaciousness, the essence of everything is our very breath. Look how we are animated by the breath, the divine existence without which we are not. We swim in it. We only exist because of it. It is what animates this body. It is what is absolutely fundamental. And we rarely pay any attention to that which is the most important part of our lives.