Like a meteor hurtling toward the Earth, each of us hurtles through the years being worn of all that doesn’t matter. Like a meteor that shines brighter the more it casts off, each soul shines brighter as the body that carries it is slowly cast off over a lifetime. This is the same process our deepest feelings and understandings are subject to as we try to express them. Each truth shines brighter as the story that carries it is cast off in the telling and there is nothing left but its truth. And both the light of truth we carry in our story and the light of soul we carry in our life illuminate us from the inside until we glow. Until someone sees the light in our eyes and is stopped by the force of life trying to live.
A Question to Walk With: Describe something that mattered greatly in your life ten years ago and how you hold it now. How is it different? What accounts for this difference?
This is from my book, Drinking from the River of Light.
Join Mark’s Next 3-Session Webinar Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity February 4, 11, 17, 2023. Register at live.marknepo.com
FEB 20-24: Mastery Week: The Call of Your Soul, Weeklong Retreat, The Modern Elder Academy, Mexico, (web link) — IN PERSON https://www.modernelderacademy.com/baja-workshop/mastery-week-the-call-of-your-soul
MAY 19-26: Drinking From the River of Light: The Life of Expression, Weeklong Retreat, Global Journeys, Florence Italy, (web link) — IN PERSON https://globalj.org/mark-nepo-overview/
For info on Mark’s upcoming events, visit: https://marknepo.com/teaching_schedule.php
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In