Poetry readings by Mark Nepo at All Saints Church, Pasadena, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, 2013. For more about All Saints Church visit htt;://www.allsaints-pas.org.
What soft ideas to come to see our lives as valuable. Stirred gently to awaken to our magnificent presence of becoming the enlightened beings that we have almost missed being made aware of. How generous the life force delivers the conscious awareness of the beautiful opportunity to wake up to the value of coming to ourselves in such sweetness. This pause to listen to a poet, a thinking expressing being, bringing us around to how beautiful everything is that we have attempted to call insignificant. Nothing is insignificant. Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Awake, alive, aware to more than we could have ever imagined. Thank you to the expressors of their inner life, that wakes others to go ahead and express the wonder that we each are. May we all wake up from the dream and let the wind catch our sail.
DEAR MARK, I LOST MY DAD A YEAR AGO SEPT. 6, MY B-DAY BEING IN SEPT. 9, AND AFTER HAVING LOST MY CLOSEST AUNT AND A COUSIN FROM HIS FAMILY LINE TWO YEARS PRIOR AND MY BEST FRIEND ON THE SAME DATES, SEPT. 10 THREE YEARS AGO NOW. THE FIRST LOSSES WERE UNBEARABLE AND MY LAST LOSS OF MY DAD HAPPENED DURING A TIME THAT MY LAST CHILD WAS COMING INTO THE WORLD. UNDOUBTEDLY, I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM A MAJOR HEART CHAKRA AWAKENING SINCE MY DAD WENT INTO THE MAJOR HEALTH CHANGES THAT LED TO HIS LOSS SINCE MAY OF LAST YEAR. MY LIFE HAS DEFINITELY NEVER BEEN THE SAME, I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, AND YOU ARE A VOICE TO ALL THAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH AND MORE. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY VOICE AND SPEAKING FOR MY HEART TOO. I SINCERELY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR JOURNEYS, AS THEY SEEM TO BE MINE AS WELL. GOD BLESS YOU, YOUR JOURNEYS AND YOUR LIGHT PRINT. NAMASTE!
1:09:36 "I had to tell people who were not good friends : You know I really can't be with you now - I need the people who are showing up." Thank you so much for saying it out loud. Thank you for this lecture - just one thing, don't be afraid (even if you're speaking) to excuse yourself and blow your nose right there. Peace and blessings.
My gosh, how interestingly judgmental you are, Jo S.! Too bad you left...! It seems to me like I'm getting much more from his words than I did from yours, but... oh well, that's just one individual's interpretation of experience. All Blessings and Peace, Sister! If your children express their genuine love for you in some other fashion, not just some ritual response that you've demanded of them, then I hope that you honor that blessing! What do you truly know of the relationship between this man and his mother? Namastẻ! Peace and Light! "If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all." ~Yogi Bhajan~ “The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.” ~Catherine Ponder~
This guy did not contact his mother for 17 years?? and we're giving him our time right now?? Not me...that is heinous behavior to any loving mother...I'm no longer interested in anything this guy has to say....
