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Book: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
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  1. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. -ROBERT BLY
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  2. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion.
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  3. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves. – Carol Hegedus, as cited in
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  4. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    We cannot hold on to things and enter. We must put down what we carry, open the door, and then take up only what we need to bring inside.
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  5. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    When we cease to surface our most sensitive skin simply to avoid conflict with others, we remove ourselves from all that is true. When we maintain ways we've already discarded just to placate the ignorance of those we love, we lose our access to what is eternal."
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  6. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.
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  7. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn't, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she became too conscious of the steps she was taking, did she fall.
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  8. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    Of course, there will always be times that we need to find our very precise way. But more often than not, our image of a destination is only a starting point that we cling to needlessly. When we can free up our sense of needing to arrive in a certain place, we lessen the weight of being lost. And once beneath arriving and beneath our fear of failing to arrive, the real journey begins.
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  9. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    {E}ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to find our bliss and rightful place in the order of things.
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  10. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    Just as a life is made of days, so are days made of moments. A life well lived is firmly planted in the sweet soil of moments. Mark Nepo is a gardener in this soil; he plants seeds of grace that grow only in the soil of loving attention and mindful time. We receive the deepest blessings of life when we fall in love with such moments-and Mark shows us how to fall in love deeply and with abandon.
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  11. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    It took me some time to withstand his judgment and his pity, but I looked at him across the night and kept breathing deeply through the break in my heart. In daily ways, we are judged, discounted, and even pitied for glories that only we can affirm. In the end, life is too magnificent and difficult for us to give away our elemental place in the journey.
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  12. Mark Nepo _ The Book of Awakening: Having

    It is this courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.
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