OCTOBER 11 – BEING DOWNSIZED – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

“Our life experiences will have resonances within our inner most being, so that we will feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell  Recently, a friend said to me, “Everyone I know has to work obsessively and is worried about losing their jobs, being downsized...

OCTOBER 10 – TALENT – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

 It is the world that is enlightened and we who are intermittent. Like radios, we struggle through our static to receive wave lengths that are always there, and, being human, we are unable to sustain the clarity necessary to apprehend the magic inherent in...

OCTOBER 8 – BREAKING THE JAR – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

 “A man raised a baby swan in a glass jar, but as the bird grew it became stuck in the jar. The man was caught now, for the only way to free the thing was to break the jar, killing the swan.” Zen saying This parable speaks powerfully to the clear containments we set...

OCTOBER 7 – UNTIL WE LIVE IT – MARK NEPO, THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

We come with all these parts and no instructions how they go together. It is so tempting to want the answers before we begin the journey. We like to know our way. We like to have maps. We like to have guides. But we are more like a breathing puzzle, a living bag of...