APRIL 24 – LOVE LIKE WATER – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

Only love, with no thought of return, can soften the point of suffering.  Water in its clear softness fills whatever hole it finds. It is not skeptical or disrupting. It does not say this gully is too deep or that this field is too open. Like water, the miracle of...

APRIL 23 – PLAYING SMALL – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“There will never be an “us” if I play small.” Sharon Preiss In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the only difference between the lovers who find themselves enduring Hell and the lovers working their way through Paradise is that those in Hell have no individual centre, and so...

APRIL 22 – IT IS ENOUGH – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

If you can’t see what you’re looking for, see what’s there.  One of the most difficult things for us to accept is that beneath all of our dreams and disappointments, we live and breathe in abundance.  It is hard when in pain to believe that all we ever need is before...