The Book of Awakening is available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell’s iTunes Finding Inner Courage is available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell’s Read more
The Book of Awakening is available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell’s iTunes Finding Inner Courage is available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Powell’s Read more
Mark Nepo’s conversations with Oprah on her “Soul Series” radio show are now archived online. Listen to clips of Mark and Oprah’s inspiring conversation here. Read more
As soon as we covet what someone else is or has, that desire prevents us from seeing what we have. —Paul Bowler I was at a conference, and in the basement of the enormous hotel was a casino. Having only been once or twice, I was curious. As I entered the windowless room, I was stopped right away by the sight of a woman working two slot machines at once. I learned that she had been there all day, never... Read more
We are each born with a gift and a hole, and given a life to be in conversation with them, to have one fill the other. It doesn’t matter where the hole is in your life or what the gift is, it is always the journey of a life on earth to discover how they meet and complete each other within your time on earth. We waste so much time trying to hide the hole, feel ashamed of the hole,... Read more
It’s taken almost sixty years but today as the wet grass shines and the peaches soften from the inside out, I stand with nothing between me and life. The dream I’ve carried like a tent has come down. It wasn’t a false dream, but a plan I asked too much of. And now it is complete. Not that I arrived where I wanted or achieved what I set out to do. That is our illusion. Come. Look. As the sun... Read more
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—Miwok, meaning “deer jumping downhill” I’m grateful for all our ways, holding on when a squall moves through, looking each other in the eye or waiting till the other can, tracking a worry like a mouse running through the house, me wanting to kill it, grateful that once finding it in a corner, you see it quiver, its tiny eye wide, and hold it in your hands, and somehow we’re back in our skins and you are holding me. Sometimes... Read more
Mark Nepo will give a poetry reading at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 15, at Stetson Chapel on the campus of Kalamazoo College. The event is free and open to the public. Read more about the event here. Read more
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. —Ojibway saying Sometimes I lose it like the keys to the car left in my old jeans after that long walk through the pines when I fell into the marsh and the keys were all muddy, caked in my pocket, tossed in the washing machine. Then you called and there was dinner and the bills. And I couldn’t find them... Read more
I am awake. It wasn’t always so. It may not last for long. So let me say this while my heart is beating like a river. This life is more than one can bear. It’s taken years to learn this, to feel this, to know this in my bones. I am not talking about giving up or persevering. I mean we’re not designed to bear it in the first place. Anymore than the sun bears the sky or the wind... Read more
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