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March 2011

March 14, 2011
The Book of Awakening is available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell's iTunes Finding Inner...
March 14, 2011
Mark Nepo's conversations with Oprah on her "Soul Series" radio show are now archived online....
March 14, 2011
As soon as we covet what someone else is or has, that desire prevents us...
March 07, 2011
We are each born with a gift and a hole, and given a life to...

February 2011

February 28, 2011
It’s taken almost sixty years but today as the wet grass shines and the peaches...
February 22, 2011
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February 21, 2011
—Miwok, meaning “deer jumping downhill” I’m grateful for all our ways, holding on when a...
February 15, 2011
Mark Nepo will give a poetry reading at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15, at...
February 14, 2011
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on...
February 07, 2011
I am awake. It wasn’t always so. It may not last for long. So let...

January 2011

January 31, 2011
The reward for love is closeness. This is a treasure that cannot be bought or...
January 25, 2011
After coffee, I went quiet till a cloud parted in my mind and the light...
January 17, 2011
Years ago I wrote a song on the piano, discovered its patterns, played it over...
January 10, 2011
In silence or in crisis, we can put down the gun, bandage the wound, carry...
January 03, 2011
In the early light, complete stillness. In the snow, two remaining leaves. At first I...

December 2010

December 27, 2010
What would you ask if you had the chance? Would you trade that asking for...
December 20, 2010
It seems we are asked by love or forced by experience to sit with what...
December 13, 2010
I tried to think about my problem but the wind from behind the cloud turned...
December 06, 2010
Her sister was dying of cancer, a thousand miles away. She had no way of...

November 2010

November 29, 2010
In the exhibit of scrolls from China, I am lost in a river scene when...
November 22, 2010
The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo is a year’s supply of inspirational stories and...
November 22, 2010
Two deer, fur thickening for winter, nibble at the pines. The taller tugs at some...
November 15, 2010
Everyone keeps stopping me with their urgency. As if the secret of life was written...
November 08, 2010
Each storm has, like a navel, a hole in its middle through which a gull...
November 05, 2010
Listen to Mark in conversation with Jennifer Louden of Teach Now. This is yet another...
November 01, 2010
Nothing stands still. Not us or the Universe we wake in. Everything is shifting—breaking through,...

October 2010

October 25, 2010
Why do I keep putting everything away? I need to be distracted by what matters,...
October 18, 2010
It is the attainment of harmony that is called heaven, and the lack of it...
October 11, 2010
The sun doesn’t stop shining because some are blind. And birds don’t stop singing because...
October 08, 2010
Oprah writes about Mark Nepo in her "What I Know for Sure" column in the...
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