Mark
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I will Dance in Mine!
"I am often surprised and humbled by how quickly in my insecurity I can begin to assume responsibility for all the wrongs and sufferings I see around me. When thrown off-center, when old patterns return, when feeling exhausted or depressed,… Continue reading
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A spiritual experience for me.
"We often underestimate the power of giving voice, but it is real and sustaining. It is the basis of all song. It is why prisoners break into song. It is why the blues are sung, even when no one is… Continue reading
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Live where I was Planted.
"In nature, we are quietly given countless models of how to give ourselves over to what appears dark and hopeless, but which ultimately is an awakening. This moving through the dark into blossom is the threshold of God." "As a… Continue reading
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Acknowledgement of Hurting.
"Unintended hurt is as common as branches snapped in wind. But it is the unacknowledged hurt that becomes a wound." Mark Nepo I believe we all will hurt others and be hurt…as long as we are living and in relationships.… Continue reading
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Feelings feel felt.
"The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings." Gita Bellin "This sounds pretty simple, but though it's easy to know you have feelings, easy to know their weight and agitation and suddenness of mood, it is another, more… Continue reading
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Be a Surprise
"I know that over the years, through fear and expectation, my mind has gathered and hoarded places I needed to go, things I needed to have, selves I needed to be. But here I am, without most of them –… Continue reading
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In Control Within the Flow
Today's reading, March 21,in the Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo "To Harbor and Release" I love this one. "Often the pain of resisting makes us rust like iron, and in order to re-enter the flow of life, we need to… Continue reading
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Completely whole all alone.
In Mark Nepo's Book, "The Book of Awakening" for March 18th, The Life of the Caretaker. "Accept this gift, so I can see myself as giving." "I have been learning that the life of a caretaker is as addictive as… Continue reading
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Truthful to Respond to.
"True inner responsibility centers on our willingness to give voice to whatever is happening to us in the midst of a relationship. This is important both for you and the person you are relating to. If you are not present,… Continue reading
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Lies Control You.
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty – that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know." John Keats And Mark Nepo writes, "This is "all you need to know." Beauty, wherever we find it, is the salve… Continue reading