Life Recipe #1: A Simple Meal as a Beginning Again

Sometimes life feels too heavy to begin with grand resolutions or big changes. But often, the sense of life—our quiet awareness of being alive in a body—can be renewed with something very small: a simple meal.

Choose one dish you like—nothing elaborate, nothing overwhelming. It could be a bowl of warm soup, a slice of fresh bread with butter, or rice with a little olive oil and salt. Prepare it with care. Use a plate or bowl you enjoy. Decorate it with a little extra, a visual enhancement. Then sit quietly down at a table, even if it’s just cleared off for the moment. Eat slowly, tasting each bite as if it were the first food of your life.

This is not about nutrition alone. It is about re-entering life. The body feels fed, the soul feels soothed, and the “I” begins to say quietly: yes, I want to be here.

Try it today: One meal, prepared and eaten with love, as a small ceremony of belonging.