MARCH 6 – RETURNING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

We carry a center that is always returning.  We all stray from the moment in particular ways. If we meet someone and begin a new relationship, it isn’t long before we’re walking hand in hand, while wondering if we will sleep together; and if and when we do, we are...

MARCH 5 – STRAYING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

So hard to feel the stone and not the ripple.  The moment we stray from where we are, we create a tension between two places – where we are and where we are thinking of being. It is this tension that blocks us from the sensation of being fully alive, because being...

MARCH 3 – IN THE LIVING – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“Every person’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries they would put. We act it as life, before we apprehend it as truth.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Each life is a language no one knows. With every heartbreak, discovery and unexpected moment of joy,...

MARCH 2 – MORE POWER TO YOU – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Originally, the word power meant able to be. In time, it was contracted to mean to be able. We suffer the difference. I was waiting for a plane when I overheard two businessmen. One was sharing the good news that he had been promoted and the other, in congratulation...