Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
In your journal, begin to describe what stays constant for you, whether you are lifted into joy or thrown into pain or sadness. Over the years, how have you talked about this constancy that you experience and to who?
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
To discover the thread that goes through everything is the main reason to listen, express, and write.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
For each soul is such a jewel, which when clear, will reveal all the other souls in existence as well as the net of being that connects us.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
Its when the viewers vision is clear that all the jewels reflect all others
I believe we all must create—that is, we all must root and break ground until we flower. This necessary art of coming alive is not reserved for the few.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
William Stafford’s poem “The Way It Is,” which I share here: There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
Regardless of subject matter, this is the only thing worth teaching: how to uncover that original center and how to live there once it is restored.
Mark Nepo • Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression
The more we engage expression and writing as a way to listen and to stay in relationship with life, the more sacred our path.