March 1 - The One Direction - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Live deep enough and there is only one direction. No matter whom the apprentice talked to, if she listened close enough and long enough,...
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FEBRUARY 17 - ENDGAME - MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING
Now there’s nothing left but to keep dancing. I don’t know if it is human nature or the way of life on Earth, but we seldom become all of...
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January 27 - Being Kind - II - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
“We love what we attend.” Mwalimu Imara There were two brothers who never got along. One was forever ambushing everything in his path,...
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January 11 - Ted Shawn - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Underneath all we are taught, there is a voice that calls to us beyond what is reasonable, and in listening to that flicker of spirit, we...
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The Spoked Wheel - Mark Nepo
What we reach for may be different, But what makes us reach is the same. Imagine that each of us is a spoke in an infinite wheel, and,...
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January 5 - Show Your Hair - Mark Nepo, Book of Awakening
“My grandmother told me, “never hide your green hair – they can see it anyway.” Angeles Arrien From the agonies of kindergarten, when we...
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JANUARY 4 - BETWEEN PEACE AND JOY - MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING
“We could never have guessed, we were already blessed, where we are….” James Taylor This reminds me of a woman who found a folded sponge...
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January 3 - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
“The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has alway been.” Helen...
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January 2 - All Fall Down - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Lead us from the unreal to the real.” Hindu Invocation It was a snowy night, and Robert was recalling the time two springs ago when he...
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January 1 - Precious Human Birth - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Of all things that exist, we breathe and wake and turn it into song. There is a Buddhist precept that asks us to be mindful of how rare...
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