About book Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (2012)
Loved the insight in this book as well as the poetry. He has a way with words that touch me.Here are some excerpts:How we can empathize with each other:"Keep each other company when we're drowning in our experience and awash in our feelings, until it can all right-size, until our experience can once again sustain us."About dealing with pain:"We can't avoid pain and loss and we don't have to make Gods of pain and loss either. It is the give-and-take between pain and wonder and the way the weather of experience shapes our journey."Why it is important to slow down:"Living in a world of motion, we are constantly asked to quiet ourselves in order to glimpse and feel the truth of things, the way we wait for water to be still so we can see the bottom."I love the practices in the book. I had to return it to the library, but I am thinking about buying it as a reference.Here is my favorite quote from the book:"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. Is is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out". --Vaclov Havel Mark Nepo, a poet-philosopher, utilized his experience with cancer to deepen his awareness of the sacred in all life experiences. He speaks the language of writers who have penetrating awareness of the spirit. This is not a sweetly inspirational book--he's clear that "life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey" and this is simply the "geography of being alive." But the book does inspire and uplift with its instruction on the pilgrimage of acceptance and beyond. Writing with prose and poetry, and poetic prose, Nepo opens the door, a little or a lot, on the "elemental process of tasting and internalizing the mystery of life."
Do You like book Seven Thousand Ways To Listen: Staying Close To What Is Sacred (2012)?
I couldn't get into this. He was trying to be sincere, but I just didn't connect with him.
—brodie
Need to be in a different mindset. A good read a bit now and a bit later kind of book
—Shane
Loved it. Very rich images that propel one into growth.
—hollie
